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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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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Cognitive linguistics research ;
58. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- 17. Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective: An assessment of the variation and steps towards explanation
- Subject index
- Language index
- Author index.