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Historical Semantics and Cognition

✍ Scribed by Andreas Blank (editor); Peter Koch (editor)

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Leaves
320
Series
Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; 13
Edition
1999. Reprint 2013
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: historical semantics and cognition
Section I: Theories and Models
Cognitive semantics and structural semantics
Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change?
Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change
Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest
Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes
Section II: Descriptive categories
Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency
The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectification
Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy
Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change
Section III: Case studies
Intensifies as targets and sources of semantic change
Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorization of body parts in Romance
Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space HAVE/BE
List of contributors
Index

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