The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2016

The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Edited by: Päivi Juvonen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

Volume 58 in the series Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110377675

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About this book

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 motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.

Author / Editor information

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm and Paeivi Juvonen, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Reviews

"This volume is highly welcome since few reference books on semantic shifts have been published to date [...] This volume is the first one to be clearly typologically oriented. [...] This volume should become a reference book on this topic in the future. Since each chapter is carefully argued, this volume will interest researchers in lexicology, typology, as well as in cognitive and cultural linguistics."
Olivier Bondeelle in: Linguist List 10.10.2017 https://linguistlist.org/issues/28/28-4144.html

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. “The lexical typology of semantic shifts”: An introduction Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Meaning change and semantic shifts Peter Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Semantic shifts as sources of enantiosemy Alexei Shmelev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology Ekaterina Rakhilina and Tatiana Reznikova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages Carita Paradis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
6. Studying colexification through massively parallell corpora Robert Östling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
7. Polysemy in action: The Swedish verb slå ‘hit, strike, beat’ in a crosslinguistic perspective Åke Viberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
8. Making do with minimal lexica. Light verb constructions with make/do in pidgin lexica Päivi Juvonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
9. Extended uses of body-related temperature expressions Susanne Vejdemo and Sigi Vandewinkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages Michael Fortescue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
11. Motivational scenarios and semantic frames for social relations in Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages – friends, enemies, and others Galina Yavorska and Galyna Zymovets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
12. Tree, firewood and fire in the languages of Sahul Antoinette Schapper, Lila San Roque and Rachel Hendery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
13. Investigating lexical motivation in French and Italian Daniela Marzo and Birgit Umbreit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
14. Types of motivation in folk plant taxonomies Wiltrud Mihatsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
15. Differences and interactions between scientific and folk biological taxonomy Maksim Russo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
16. Holistic motivation: Systematization and application to the Cooking domain Markus Ising Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
17. Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective: An assessment of the variation and steps towards explanation Matthias Urban Publicly Available Download PDF	555
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	577
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	581
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	591

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Scholars with an Interest in Cognitive Linguistics, Typologists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 600
Keywords: Lexicography; Typology; Cross-Linguistic Comparison

eBook

Published: August 8, 2016
ISBN: 9783110377675

Hardcover

Published: August 8, 2016
ISBN: 9783110377521

Paperback

Published: June 11, 2018
ISBN: 9783110610673