Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics [2003 ed.] 9783110219074, 9783110177091

Table of contents :
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research
Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences for the analysis of variation in meaning
Towards a pragmatic model of cognitive onomasiology
Monosemy versus polysemy
The grammaticalization of alltså and således: Two Swedish conjuncts revisited
Word meaning, sentence meaning, and syntactic meaning
Metonymic sense shift: Its origins in hearers' abductive construal of usage in context
Growth of a lexical network: Nine English prepositions in acquisition
Image schemas and category coherence: The case of the Portuguese verb deixar
The Nawatl verb kīsa: A case study in polysemy
A diachronic perspective on prototypicality: The case of nominal adjectives in Japanese
Containment, support, and linguistic relativity
The Dutch hedges echt and gewoon: Markers of prototypicality?
Polysemy or generality? Mu.
Backmatter

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Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

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Cognitive Linguistics Research 23

Editors Rene´ Dirven Ronald W. Langacker John R. Taylor

Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York

Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics Edited by Hubert Cuyckens Rene´ Dirven John R. Taylor

Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York 2003

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