Historical cognitive linguistics

by Allan, Kathryn Tissari, Heli Winters, Margaret E.

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This volume addresses aspects of language change using the semantics-based theory of Cognitive Linguistics, and primarily focuses on the lexicon and metaphor, the semantics of syntax, and language evolution. The papers that make up the collection consider current approaches to questions of the mental organization of meaning and its expression, and point toward future research.

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Full title :Historical cognitive linguistics / edited by Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari, Kathryn Allan.

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Publication Date:©2010.

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Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
Place of Publication:Berlin
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

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Description:viii, 360 pages ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:9783110226430, 311022643X
oclc:ocn661048136
LC Classification:P142
Dewey Decimal:417/.7

Introduction: on the emergence of diachronic cognitive linguistics / Margaret E. Winters -- On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): some theoretical considerations / Roslyn M. Frank and Nathalie Gontier -- Metaphor in discourse history / Andreas Musolff -- Where do beneficiaries come from and how do they come about? Sources for beneficiary expressions in classical Greek and the typology of beneficiary / Silvia Luraghi -- Finite and gerundive complementation in modern and present-day English: semantics, variation and change / Liesbet Heyvaert and Hubert Cuyckens -- Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: material for object mappings in the OED / Kathryn Allan -- The roles of reader construal and lexicographic authority in the interpretation of Middle English texts / Louise Sylvester -- Conceptual networking theory in metaphor evolution: diachronic variation in models of love / Richard Trim -- Cognitive historical approaches to emotions: pride / Małgorzata Fabiszak and Anna Hebda -- English words for emotions and their metaphors / Heli Tissari -- Prospects for the past: perspectives for cognitive diachronic semantics / Dirk Geeraerts.

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17.15 historical linguistics Changement linguistique Cognitive grammar cognitive linguistics Congresses (form) Grammaire cognitive Historical linguistics Historische Sprachwissenschaft kognitiv lingvistik Kognitive Grammatik Kognitive Linguistik Kongress Krakau <2007> Linguistic change Linguistique historique linguistique historique -- congrès Sprachwandel Språkförändringar Språkhistoria