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

Author/Creator:

International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Corporate Author.

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 ; 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.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 296 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

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:

9786613174574

9781283174572

128317457X

9789027283696

9027283699

OCLC:

735627782