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The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts.
The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and mo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston, GERMANY :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2016.
©2016 |
| Colección: | Cognitive linguistics research ;
58. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents ; 1. "The lexical typology of semantic shifts": An introduction ; 2. Meaning change and semantic shifts ; 3. Semantic shifts as sources of enantiosemy ; 4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology.
- 5. Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages 6. Studying colexification through massively parallell corpora ; 7. Polysemy in action: The Swedish verb slå 'hit, strike, beat' in a crosslinguistic perspective.
- 8. Making do with minimal lexica. Light verb constructions with make/do in pidgin lexica 9. Extended uses of body-related temperature expressions ; 10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages.
- 11. Motivational scenarios and semantic frames for social relations in Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages
- friends, enemies, and others 12. Tree, firewood and fire in the languages of Sahul ; 13. Investigating lexical motivation in French and Italian.
- 14. Types of motivation in folk plant taxonomies 15. Differences and interactions between scientific and folk biological taxonomy ; 16. Holistic motivation: Systematization and application to the Cooking domain.