From polysemy to semantic change : towards a typology of lexical semantic associations /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 404 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in language companion series ; v. 106 Studies in language companion series ; v. 106.
Subject:	Semantics, Historical. Polysemy. Typology (Linguistics) Polysemy. Semantics, Historical. Typology (Linguistics) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196959

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Other authors / contributors:	Vanhove, Martine.
ISBN:	9789027205735 9027205736 9789027290328 9027290326 1282104624 9781282104624 9786612104626 6612104627
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps.
Other form:	Print version: From polysemy to semantic change. Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Semantic associations: A foreword
2. Part 1. State of the art
3. Approaching lexical typology
4. Part 2. Theoretical and methodological issues
5. Words and their meanings: Principles of variation and stabilization
6. The\typology of semantic affinities
7. Cognitive onomasiology and lexical change: Around the eye
8. Mapping semantic spaces: A constructionist account of the "light verb" xordæn 'eat' in Persian
9. Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages
10. A\catalogue of semantic shifts: Towards a typology of semantic derivation
11. Semantic associations and confluences in paradigmatic networks
12. Part 3. Case studies
13. About 'Eating' in a few Niger-Congo languages
14. Eating beyond certainties
15. From semantic change to polysemy: The cases of 'meat/animal' and 'drink'
16. Is a 'friend' an 'enemy'? Between "proximity" and "opposition"
17. Semantic associations between sensory modalities, prehension and mental perceptions: A crosslinguistic perspective
18. Cats and bugs: Some remarks about semantic parallelisms
19. General index
20. Index of languages
21. Index of names

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