Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics
Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997
- Editor(s): Hubert Cuyckens 1 and Britta E. Zawada 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven2 University of South Africa
- Format: PDF
- Publication Date July 2001
- e-Book ISBN: 9789027283696
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.177
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.
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