Full Description
In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually broadened from categories in the lexical and lexico-grammatical domain to morphological, syntactic, and phonological categories. The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories. A first set of papers analyzes the polysemy of such lexical categories as prepositions and scalar particles, and looks at the import of polysemy in frame-based dictionary definitions. A second set shows that noun classes, case, and locative prefixes constitute meaningful and polysemous categories. Three papers, then, pay attention to polysemy from a psychological perspective, looking for psychological evidence of polysemy in lexical categories.
Contents
1. Editors' Foreword; 2. Introduction (by Cuyckens, Hubert); 3. The Spatial and Non-Spatial Senses of the German Preposition Uber (by Meex, Birgitta); 4. Scalar Particles and the Sequential Space Construction (by Huumo, Tuomas); 5. A Frame-Based Approach to Polysemy (by Martin, Willy); 6. Where Do the Senses of Cora Va'a- Come From? (by Casad, Eugene H.); 7. Why Quirky Case Really Isn't Quirky. Or how to treat dative sickness in Icelandic (by Smith, Michael B.); 8. When a Dance Resembles a Tree. A polysemy analysis of three Setswana noun classes (by Selvik, Kari-Anne); 9. Systemic Polysemy in the Southern Bantu Noun Class System (by Hendrikse, A.P.); 10. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Polysemy (by Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.); 11. The Embodied Approach to the Polysemy of the Spatial Preposition On (by Beitel, Dinara A.); 12. Processing Polysemous, Homonymous, and Vague Adjectives (by Brisard, Frank); 13. Name Index; 14. Subject Index; 15. Addresses
