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Cognitive linguistics and lexical change : motion verbs from Latin to Romance /
This monograph offers the first in-depth lexical and semantic analysis of motion verbs in their development from Latin to nine Romance languages - Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, Sardinian, and Raeto-Romance - demonstrating that the patterns of innovation and contin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LEXICAL CHANGE; Editorial page; Title page; Lcc data; Table of contents; Preface & Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1. Objectives and key concepts ; 1.1 Goals of the present study ; 1.2 Motion verbs in the Romance language family ; 1.3 Levels of lexical change: Onomasiology and semasiology ; 1.4 The historical cognitive linguistics framework as a new type of diachrony ; Chapter 2. Cognitive onomasiology and cognitive typology of motion encoding ; 2.1 Cognitive onomasiology ; 2.2 Cognitive typology of motion encoding ; Chapter 3. Latin and Romance verb biographies.
- 3.1 Generic motion 3.2 Direction-specific motion ; 3.2.1 Movement toward and/or reaching a particular location ; 3.2.2 Movement away from a particular location ; 3.2.3 Movement inside ; 3.2.4 Movement outside ; 3.2.5 Movement upward ; 3.2.6 Movement downward ; 3.3 Manner-specific motion ; 3.3.1 Movement on foot by taking steps ; 3.3.2 Swift movement on foot ; 3.3.3 Movement by springing off the ground ; 3.4 Biographical overview ; Chapter 4. Patterns of onomasiological continuity and change from Latin to Romance ; 4.1 Lexical continuity and lexical loss from Latin to Romance.
- 4.2 Romance innovative lexical creation 4.3 Latin and Romance motion verbs as part of constructions ; Chapter 5. Cognitive semasiology and conceptual metaphor theory ; 5.1 Conceptual metaphor and motion source domain ; 5.2 Conceptual metaphor and the evolution of the Romance languages ; Chapter 6. Semantic continuity and loss from Latin to Romance ; 6.1 Motion-based mappings shared by Latin and Romance ; 6.1.1 change is motion ; 6.1.2 a stage in an action is a location along the path ; 6.1.3 purposes are destinations ; 6.1.4 originating is motion ; 6.1.5 existence is motion.
- 6.1.6 disappearing is motion 6.1.7 linear scales are paths ; 6.1.8 amount is verticality, more is up, less is down ; 6.1.9 progress is vertical movement, good is up, bad is down ; 6.1.10 manner of action is manner of motion ; 6.1.11 speed of action is speed of motion ; 6.1.12 omitting is jumping ; 6.1.13 deviation is motion ; 6.1.14 form is motion ; 6.1.15 change in size is motion ; 6.1.16 shape is motion ; 6.1.17 placement is motion ; 6.1.18 similarity is motion ; 6.1.19 diffusion is motion ; 6.1.20 possession is motion ; 6.1.21 time is motion: time is something moving.
- 6.1.22 time is motion: time is a landscape we move through, time is a landscape in which events are located 6.1.23 selection is motion ; 6.1.24 thinking is moving in the ideascape: reasoning is following a path ; 6.1.25 thinking is moving in the ideascape: ideas are moving objects ; 6.2 Motion-based semantic continuity and loss within a wider context ; Chapter 7. Romance innovative semantic developments ; 7.1 Pan-Romance semantic innovations ; 7.2 Language-specific semantic innovations ; 7.3 Semantic innovations through borrowing ; 7.4 Written evidence and the latent state.