3 options
Historical Semantics and Cognition / Andreas Blank, Peter Koch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 13.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semantics, Historical--Psychological aspects.
- Semantics, Historical.
- Cognition.
- Philology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages)
- Edition:
- 1999. Reprint 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Historical Semantics and Cognition".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Introduction: historical semantics and cognition / Blank, Andreas / Koch, Peter
- Section I. Theories and Models
- Cognitive Semantics and Structural Semantics / Taylor, John R.
- Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change? / Lüdtke, Helmut
- Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change / Blank, Andreas
- Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest / Geeraerts, Dirk
- Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes / Rastier, François
- Section II. Descriptive categories
- Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency / Langacker, Ronald W.
- The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectifícation / Closs Traugott, Elizabeth
- Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy / Nerlich, Brigitte / Clarke, David D.
- Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change / Warren, Beatrice
- Section III. Case studies
- Intensifies as targets and sources of semantic change / König, Ekkehard / Siemund, Peter
- Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorization of body parts in Romance / Krefeld, Thomas
- Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space HAVE/BE / Koch, Peter
- List of contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110804195
- 3110804190
- OCLC:
- 868973793
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.