Words and other wonders : papers on lexical and semantic topics

Words and other wonders : papers on lexical and semantic topics / by Dirk Geeraerts.

Cognitive Linguistics has given a major impetus to the study of semantics and the lexicon. The present volume brings together seventeen previously published papers that testify to the fruitfulness of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of lexical and semantic topics. Spanning the period from the lat...

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Main Author: Geeraerts, Dirk, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Series:Cognitive linguistics research ; 33.
Subjects:
Semantics.
Lexicology.
semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Semantics.
Lexicology
Semantics
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Prospects and problems of prototype theory
  • 2. Where does prototypicality come from?
  • 3. The semantic structure of Dutch over
  • 4. Salience phenomena in the lexicon : a typology
  • 5. Vagueness's puzzles, polysemy's vagaries
  • 6. Classical definability and the monosemic bias
  • 7. The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch
  • 8. The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions
  • 9. Looking back at anger : cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns
  • 10. Beer and semantics
  • 11. Cultural models of linguistic standardization
  • 12. Caught in a web of irony : Job and his embarassed God
  • 13. The lexicographical treatment of prototypical polysemy
  • 14. The definitional practice of dictionaries and the cognitive semantic conception of polysemy
  • 15. Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics
  • 16. The theoretical and descriptive development of lexical semantics
  • 17. Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics.

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