Categorization in the history of English / edited by Christian J. Kay, Jeremy J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Kay, Christian.

Smith, J. J. (Jeremy J.)

Conference Name:

Symposium on Classification and Categorization (1999 : Institute for the Historical Study of Language)

Series:

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 261.

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 261

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammatical categories.

English language.

English language--Grammar, Historical.

Physical Description:

viii, 268 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia [Pa.] : John Benjamins Pub., c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers in this volume are linked by a common concern, which is at the centre of current linguistic enquiry: how do we classify and categorize linguistic data, and how does this process add to our understanding of linguistic change? The scene is set by Aitchison's paper on the development of linguistic categorization over the past few decades, followed by Biggam's critical overview of theoretical developments in colour semantics. Lexical classification in action is discussed in papers by Fischer, Kay and Sylvester on the structures of thesauruses, while detailed treatments of particular semantic areas are offered by Kleparski, Mikołajczuk, O'Hare and Peters. Papers by Lass, Laing and Williamson, and Smith are concerned with the nature of linguistic evidence in the context of the historical record, offering new insights into text typology, scribal language and vowel classification. Much of the data discussed is new and original.

Contents:

CATEGORIZATION IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

PREFACE

THE RHINOCEROS'S PROBLEM THE NEED TO CATEGORIZE

1. Introduction

2. Checklist challenges (early 1970s)

3. Birdy birds: prototype theory (mid-late 1970s)

4. Knives and forks: lexical complexity (1980s)

5. Wimps: collocation and co-occurrence (early 1990s)

6. Absolute disasters: polysemy (late 1990s)

7. Conclusion

References

PROTOTYPES AND FOCI IN THE ENCODING OF COLOUR

2. Berlin and Kay

3. Kay

4. Kay and McDaniel

5. Rosch

6. Wierzbicka

7. Polish-Swedish Research

8. MacLaury

9. Conclusion

THE NOTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THESAURUSES

2. The overall structure of thesauruses

3. Where in a scheme are certain concepts found?

3.1 Marriage

3.2 Laughing/laughter

3.3 Discussion

4. Conclusion

WHEN IGNORANCE IS WISDOM SOME DAY-TO-DAY PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION

1. The Historical Thesaurus of English

2. The urge to classify

3. Folk taxonomies

4. Some problem cases

5. Conclusion

CDs, PETTICOATS, SKIRTS, ANKAS, TAMARAS AND SHEILAS THE METONYMICAL RISE OF LEXICAL CATEGORIES RELATED TO THE CONCEPTUAL CATEGORY FEMALE HUMAN BEING

2. Setting metonymy in a cognitive milieu

3. Metonymy

4. CLOTHES and FEMALE HUMAN BEING

5. Personal Names and FEMALE HUMAN BEING

6. Conclusion

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL TEXTS

1. Linguistic archaeology

1.1 Stemmatology

1.2 Dialectal stratification

2. Applications

2.1 Earlier studies based on LALME data

2.2 A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (LAEME)

3. Methodology

3.1 Definitions- 'item', 'form' and 'feature'

3.2 The fit'-technique.

3.3 Potential problems of fitting by hand

3.4 Automated fitting

4. A worked example

4.1 Criteria for selection

4.2 The chosen scribe

4.3 Identifying a copyist's own linguistic usage

4.4 The Misyn texts and their exemplar

4.5. The linguistic archaeology of Scribe B's texts

5. Results

5.1 Scribe B 's usage as defined by changes to his copies of the Corpus versions of the Misyn texts

5.2 Scribe B's own usage defined by forms and features common to most of his texts

5.3 Fitting the assemblages

6. Results

6.1 The provenance of Scribe B.

6.2 Non-B usage in the Misyn texts and CCCO 236.

6.3 Fitting the non-Scribe B assemblages of the non-Misyn texts

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

TEXTS AS LINGUISTIC OBJECTS

2. A central problem: reflections on noncommunication and method

3. Why texts may not be utterances

4. The decidability problem

ANGER IN POLISH AND ENGLISH A SEMANTIC COMPARISON WITH SOME HISTORICAL CONTEXT

2. The study

3. The structure of the category of ANGER in Polish and English

4. Looking back at the centre of ANGER in Polish and English

5. Aspectual attributes of 'gniew', 'zlość', 'anger' and 'wrath': the resultsof textual analysis

6. Some recapitulative questions

FOLK CLASSIFICATION IN THE HTE 'PLANTS' CATEGORY

2. Classification in the HTE

3. Scientific classification

4. Folk classification

5. Fuzzy boundaries

6. Classification methodology

7. Supplementary cultural information sources

8. Various issues arising in folk classification

8.1 Issues surrounding referent identity

8.2 Multiple identity

8.3 Issues surrounding synonymy

8.4 Other cognitive problems

Appendix

THE VOCABULARY OF PAIN.

1. Introduction

2. Cognitive semantics and the vocabulary of PAIN

3. The conceptualization of pain

4. A Historical Sketch of the vocabulary of PAIN in English

4.1 The Old English vocabulary: general terms

4.2 OE words for extreme pain

4.3 Old English words for sharp/punctual pain

5. Changes in Middle English

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The native words

5.3 The French words

5.4 Overview

6. Early Modern English

7. Present-day English

8. Outlook

CLASSIFYING THE VOWELS OF MIDDLE ENGLISH

1. Classification and the history of English sounds

2. Jordan's Handbuch der mittelenglischen Grammatik (1925)

3. Aitken's The Older Scots Vowels (2002)

4. Applying Aitken's scheme to accents of Middle English

5. Vowel 4 (1): distribution

6. Vowel 4 (2): the raising and rounding of Vowel 4b

Acknowledgements

CATEGORIES AND TAXONOMIES A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO LEXICOGRAPHICAL RESOURCES

2. Categories

3. Taxonomies

INDEX

Thr series Current Issues in Linguistic Theory.

Notes:

Mostly revised and expanded papers originally presented at a Symposium on Classification and Categorization held at the Institute for the Historical Study of Language, University of Glasgow, in September 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613092465

9789027285409

9027285403

9781283092463

1283092468

OCLC:

713010222