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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961535403321

Titolo

Polysemy in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997 / / edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Britta Zawada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001

ISBN

9786613174574

9781283174572

128317457X

9789027283696

9027283699

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xxvii, 296 p. : ill

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 177

Altri autori (Persone)

CuyckensH

ZawadaBritta

Disciplina

401/.43

Soggetti

Polysemy

Cognitive grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Held July 14-19, 1997, Free University of Amsterdam.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The spatial and non-spatial senses of the German preposition über / Birgitta Meex -- Scalar particles and the sequential space construction / Tuomas Huumo -- A frame-based approach to polysemy / Willy Martin -- Where do the senses of Cora va'a- come from? / Eugene H. Casad -- Why quirky case really isn't quirky, or, How to treat dative sickness in Icelandic / Michael B. Smith -- When a dance resembles a tree : a polysemy analysis of three Setswana noun classes / Kari-Anne Selvik -- Systemic polysemy in the Southern Bantu noun class system / A.P. Hendrikse -- Psycholinguistic perpsectives on polysemy / Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. & Teenie Matlock -- The embodied approach to the polysemy of the spatial preposition on / Dinara A. Beitel, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. & Paul Sanders -- Processing polysemous, homonymous, and vague adjectives / Frank Brisard, Gert van Rillaer & Dominick Sandra.

Sommario/riassunto

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing



phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually broadened from categories in the lexical and lexico-grammatical domain to morphological, syntactic, and phonological categories. The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories. A first set of papers analyzes the polysemy of such lexical categories as prepositions and scalar particles, and looks at the import of polysemy in frame-based dictionary definitions. A second set shows that noun classes, case, and locative prefixes constitute meaningful and polysemous categories. Three papers, then, pay attention to polysemy from a psychological perspective, looking for psychological evidence of polysemy in lexical categories.