This volume contributes to the now one-century old question, 'Is the link between forms and meanings in language essentially arbitrary, as Saussure put it, or is it on the contrary also considerably motivated?' The greater part of the papers (Sections 1-3) analyze linguistic phe…
Review text: "Overall, this volume is an important contribution to the development of empirical Cognitive Semantics. This collection of high-quality papers provides the reader with an insight into the most important empirical approaches in corpus-driven semantic research."Natali…
Spatial language - that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain - is an important area of research, offering insights into one of the most central areas of human cognition. In this collection, a team of leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety …
Spatial language, that is, the way languages structure the spatial domain, is an important area of current research. In this collection, leading scholars review the spatial domain across a wide variety of languages. They show that there is great variation in the way space is str…
In this pioneering collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they uncover considerable cross-linguistic variation across this central domain, adding to debat…
"This book offers a comparative study of how speakers of different languages express memory concepts. It addresses a key question: how do speakers of different languages talk about the experience of having prior experiences come to mind ('remembering') or failing to come to mind…
