Buch, Englisch, Band 177, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 560 g
Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
Buch, Englisch, Band 177, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 560 g
Reihe: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
ISBN: 978-90-272-3683-8
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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.
