Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: historical semantics and cognition / Andreas Blank, Peter Koch 1
  • Section I Theories and Models
  • Cognitive semantics and structural semantics / John R. Taylor 17
  • Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change? / Helmut Ludtke 49
  • Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change / Andreas Blank 61
  • Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest / Dirk Geeraerts 91
  • Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes / Francois Rastier 109
  • Section II Descriptive categories
  • Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency / Ronald W. Langacker 147
  • Rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectification / Elizabeth Closs Traugott 177
  • Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy / Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke 197
  • Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change / Beatrice Warren 215
  • Intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change / Ekkehard Konig, Peter Siemund 237
  • Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorization of body parts in Romance / Thomas Krefeld 259
  • Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space HAVE/BE / Peter Koch 279.