Polysemy In Cognitive Linguistics

Author : H. Cuyckens,Britta Zawada
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236838

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Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics by H. Cuyckens,Britta Zawada Pdf

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.

Author : Brigitte Nerlich,Zazie Todd,Vimala Herman,David D. Clarke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110895698

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Polysemy by Brigitte Nerlich,Zazie Todd,Vimala Herman,David D. Clarke Pdf

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory.

Author : Nick Riemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197556

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The Semantics of Polysemy by Nick Riemer Pdf

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia). The opening chapters develop a novel theoretical orientation for the study of polysemy via a close examination of two theoretical traditions under the broader cognitivist umbrella: Langackerian and Lakovian Cognitive Semantics and Wierzbickian Natural Semantic Metalanguage. Arguments are offered which problematize attempts in these traditions to ground the analysis of meaning either in cognitive or neurological reality, or in the existence of universal synonymy relations within the lexicon. Instead, an interpretative rather than a scientific construal of linguistic theorizing is sketched, in the context of a close examination of certain key issues in the contemporary study of polysemy such as sense individuation, the role of reference in linguistic categorization, and the demarcation between metaphor and metonymy. The later chapters present a detailed typology of the polysemous senses of English and Warlpiri percussion/impact (or P/I) verbs based on a diachronically deep corpus of dictionary citations from Middle to contemporary English, and on a large corpus of Warlpiri citations. Limited to the operations of metaphor and of three categories of metonymy, this typology posits just four types of basic relation between extended and core meanings. As a result, the phenomenon of polysemy and semantic extension emerges as amenable to strikingly concise description.

Author : Michael Fortescue
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004449527

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Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition by Michael Fortescue Pdf

This book contains an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages.

Author : Gitte Kristiansen,Michel Achard,René Dirven,Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197761

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Cognitive Linguistics by Gitte Kristiansen,Michel Achard,René Dirven,Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Pdf

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value. Key features: An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics. Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field. Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized by a highly specific information value.

Author : M. Rakova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230512801

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The Extent of the Literal by M. Rakova Pdf

The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author argues for a reconsideration of standard assumptions concerning the notion of literal meaning and its relation to conceptual structure. She draws on neurophysiological and psychological experimental data in support of a view in which polysemy belongs to the level of words but not to the level of concepts, and thus challenges some seminal work on metaphor and polysemy within cognitive linguistics, lexical semantics and analytical philosophy.

Author : Marina Rakova,Gergely Pethő,Csilla Rákosi
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114868610

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The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy by Marina Rakova,Gergely Pethő,Csilla Rákosi Pdf

The volume aims to explore the relationship between the theoretical modelling and the mental representation of the perceived multiplicity of lexical meanings. The collection is divided into three thematic sections, discussing psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic evidence concerning polysemy; theoretical considerations regarding the representation of different types of meaning variation phenomena; and polysemy connected (in a variety of ways) to syntactic constructions. A common theme for the contributions is the recognition that consideration of a range of so far neglected types of evidence (both from within and from outside of linguistics proper) is essential to achieve further progress in polysemy research.

Author : Dylan Glynn,Justyna A. Robinson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270337

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Corpus Methods for Semantics by Dylan Glynn,Justyna A. Robinson Pdf

This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of the statistical techniques used in the first part of the volume. A handbook both for linguists working with statistics in corpus research and for linguists in the fields of polysemy and synonymy.

Author : Yael Ravin,Claudia Leacock
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191584695

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Polysemy by Yael Ravin,Claudia Leacock Pdf

This volume of newly commissioned essays examines current theoretical and computational work on polysemy, the term used in semantic analysis to describe words with more than one meaning or function, sometimes perhaps related (as in plain) and sometimes perhaps not (as in bank). Such words present few difficulties in everyday language, but pose central problems for linguists and lexicographers, especially for those involved in lexical semantics and in computational modelling. The contributors to this book–leading researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics–consider the implications of these problems for grammatical theory and how they may be addressed by computational means. The theoretical essays in the book examine polysemy as an aspect of a broader theory of word meaning. Three theoretical approaches are presented: the Classical (or Aristotelian), the Prototypical, and the Relational. Their authors describe the nature of polysemy, the criteria for detecting it, and its manifestations across languages. They examine the issues arising from the regularity of polysemy and the theoretical principles proposed to account for the interaction of lexical meaning with the semantics and syntax of the context in which it occurs. Finally they consider the formal representations of meaning in the lexicon, and their implications for dictionary construction. The computational essays are concerned with the challenge of polysemy to automatic sense disambiguation–how intended meaning for a word occurrence can be identified. The approaches presented include the exploitation of lexical information in machine-readable dictionaries, machine learning based on patterns of word co-occurrence, and hybrid approaches that combine the two. As a whole, the volume shows how on the one hand theoretical work provides the motivation and may suggest the basis for computational algorithms, while on the other computational results may validate, or reveal problems in, the principles set forth by theories.

Author : Vyvyan Evans,Melanie Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317954354

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Cognitive Linguistics by Vyvyan Evans,Melanie Green Pdf

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar). The authors offer clear, critical evaluations of competing formal approaches within theoretical linguistics. For example, cognitive linguistics is compared to Generative Grammar and Relevance Theory. In the selection of material and in the presentations, the authors have aimed for a balanced perspective. Part II, Cognitive Semantics, and Part III, Cognitive Approaches to Grammar, have been created to be read independently. The authors have kept in mind that different instructors and readers will need to use the book in different ways tailored to their own goals. The coverage is suitable for a number of courses. While all topics are presented in terms accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students of linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and modern languages, this work is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed to serve as a reference work for scholars who wish to gain a better understanding of cognitive linguistics.

Author : William Croft,D. Alan Cruse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139445221

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Cognitive Linguistics by William Croft,D. Alan Cruse Pdf

Cognitive Linguistics argues that language is governed by general cognitive principles, rather than by a special-purpose language module. This introductory textbook surveys the field of cognitive linguistics as a distinct area of study, presenting its theoretical foundations and the arguments supporting it. Clearly organised and accessibly written, it provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. It covers the main topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in this fast-growing field of linguistics. The authors begin by explaining the conceptual structures and cognitive processes governing linguistic representation and behaviour, and go on to explore cognitive approaches to lexical semantics, as well as syntactic representation and analysis, focusing on the closely related frameworks of cognitive grammar and construction grammar. This much-needed introduction will be welcomed by students in linguistics and cognitive science.

Author : Kerstin Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110828641

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From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics by Kerstin Fischer Pdf

Author : Marina Zhadeyko
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781446189559

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Anthropolinguistic Aspect of English Polysemy by Marina Zhadeyko Pdf

Anthropolinguistics is a core topic of the majority of books on linguistics today. Still there are different approaches to word study within this field. This book provides a comprehensive survey of historic semantic changes of English polysemous words. Anthropolinguistic Aspect of English Polysemy is a wide-ranging account not only of how words witness history, but also of how evolution change is reflected in word semantics and of links between our past and present. It is available to a large audience as it sheds light on problems of evolution of human cognition that remain at the centre of contemporary linguistics.

Author : Hubert Cuyckens,René Dirven,John R. Taylor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219074

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Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics by Hubert Cuyckens,René Dirven,John R. Taylor Pdf

This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in papers on the development of word meaning in child language acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the words are encountered. This book is of interest to semanticists and cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader field of cognitive science.

Author : Martine Vanhove
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205735

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From Polysemy to Semantic Change by Martine Vanhove Pdf

This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages, illustrated with numerous examples from different semantic domains and different languages. Part three is dedicated to detailed empirical studies of a large sample of languages in a limited set of semantic fields. It reveals possible universals of semantic association, as well as areal and cultural tendencies.