Polysemy: Flexible Patterns of Meaning in Mind and LanguageBrigitte Nerlich 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. |
Contents
Cognitive models of polysemy | 31 |
past and present | 49 |
Polysemy and conceptual blending | 79 |
the case of over | 95 |
experiments with English | 161 |
Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension | 195 |
Polysemy in derivational affixes | 217 |
The role of links andor qualia in modifierhead constructions | 233 |
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