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

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Cuyckens, H.

Zawada, Britta.

Conference Name:

International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (5th : 1997 : Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Series:

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

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polysemy--Congresses.

Polysemy.

Cognitive grammar--Congresses.

Cognitive grammar.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2001]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1556198949

OCLC:

46969960