04282nam 2200733 a 450 991081321000332120200520144314.01-282-19393-797866121939343-11-019755-310.1515/9783110197556(CKB)1000000000479974(EBL)325589(OCoLC)476123619(SSID)ssj0000243974(PQKBManifestationID)11200448(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243974(PQKBWorkID)10168671(PQKB)11063858(MiAaPQ)EBC325589(DE-B1597)32226(OCoLC)853267041(OCoLC)948655907(DE-B1597)9783110197556(Au-PeEL)EBL325589(CaPaEBR)ebr10197195(CaONFJC)MIL219393(EXLCZ)99100000000047997420050411d2005 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe semantics of polysemy reading meaning in English and Warlpiri /by Nick Riemer1st ed.Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyterc20051 online resource (504 p.)Cognitive linguistics research ;30Description based upon print version of record.3-11-018397-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [452]-478) and index.Front matter --Table of contents --Chapter 1 Cognition and linguistic science --Chapter 2 Meaning, definition and paraphrase --Chapter 3 Evidence for polysemy --Chapter 4 A four-category theory of polysemy --Chapter 5 Applications I: English --Chapter 6 Applications II: Warlpiri --Chapter 7 Conclusion: description and explanation in semantics --Back matterThis book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia). The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation for the study of polysemy via a close examination of two theoretical traditions under the broader cognitivist umbrella: Langackerian and Lakovian Cognitive Semantics and Wierzbickian Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Arguments are offered which problematize attempts in these traditions to ground the analysis of meaning either in cognitive or neurological reality, or in the existence of universal synonymy relations within the lexicon. Instead, an interpretative rather than a scientific construal of linguistic theorizing is sketched, in the context of a close examination of certain key issues in the contemporary study of polysemy such as sense individuation, the role of reference in linguistic categorization, and the demarcation between metaphor and metonymy. The later chapters present a detailed typology of the polysemous senses of English and Warlpiri percussion/impact (or P/I) verbs based on a diachronically deep corpus of dictionary citations from Middle to contemporary English, and on a large corpus of Warlpiri citations. Limited to the operations of metaphor and of three categories of metonymy, this typology posits just four types of basic relation between extended and core meanings. As a result, the phenomenon of polysemy and semantic extension emerges as amenable to strikingly concise description.Cognitive linguistics research ;30.PolysemyCognitive grammarGrammar, Comparative and generalVerbEnglish languageSemanticsWarlpiri languageSemanticsPolysemy.Cognitive grammar.Grammar, Comparative and generalVerb.English languageSemantics.Warlpiri languageSemantics.401/.43Riemer Nick1972-1332195MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813210003321The semantics of polysemy3992614UNINA