Semantic Structure and Semantic Change
Author | : Eve E. Sweetser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Anglais (Langue) - Sémantique |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eve E. Sweetser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Anglais (Langue) - Sémantique |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Eve E. Sweetser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 43 |
Release | : 1984 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Eve Sweetser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Modality (Linguistics) |
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Author | : Eve Sweetser |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1991-07-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316582337 |
This book offers a distinct approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of English modals, conjunctions, conditionals and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, Eve Sweetser's argument shows that they can be analysed both readily and systematically. Meaning relationships in general cannot be understood independently of human cognitive structure, including the metaphorical and cultural aspects of that structure. Sweetser shows that both lexical polysemy and pragmatic ambiguity are shaped by our metaphorical folk understanding of epistemic processes and of speech interaction. Similar regularities can be shown to structure the contrast between root, epistemic and 'speech-act' uses of modal verbs, multiple uses of conjunctions and conditionals, and certain processes of historical change observed in Indo-European languages. Since polysemy is typically the intermediate step in semantic change, the same regularities observable in polysemy can be extended to an analysis of semantic change. This book will attract students and researchers in linguistics, philosophy, the cognitive sciences, and all those interested in metaphor.
Author | : Ghen-ichiro Yoshioka |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Indo-European languages |
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Author | : Wolde |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004496785 |
This volume deals with the song of wisdom in Job 28 as it is analysed by scholars in biblical exegesis, Hebrew lexicography and cognitive linguistics. A colloquium (organised by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam 2002) of experts in these three disciplines showed that exploring the common ground is worthwhile. The proceedings of this conference presented here, under the title ‘Job 28. Cognition in Context’ not only indicate the possibilities of Hebrew semantics and cognitive approaches to the Hebrew Bible but rather severely expose the unsatisfactory simplicity with which the bifurcation of so-called “historical” and “literary” approaches to or readings of the biblical text is still regarded in the exegetical disciplines.
Author | : Ghen-Ichiro Yoshioka |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781022765276 |
This linguistic study explores the semantic and syntactic properties of the verbs of doing and making in the Indo-European language family. It is a valuable resource for scholars and students of linguistics and language history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Brian Nolan |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2017-01-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027266123 |
This book offers a comprehensive investigative study of argument realisation in complex predicates and complex events at the syntax-semantic interface across a wide variety of the world’s languages, ranging over languages such as German, Irish, Sicilian and Italian, Lithuanian, Estonian and other Finno-Ugric languages, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra from Australia’s Western Desert region, Japanese, Tepehua (Totonacan, Mexico), Cheyenne, Mexican Spanish, Boharic Coptic, and Persian. This volume examines the syntactic variation of complex events, complex predicates and multi-verb constructions within a single clause where the clause is view as representing a single event, studying their semantics and syntax within functional, cognitive and constructional frameworks, to arrive at a better understanding of their cross linguistic behaviour and how they resonate in syntax. These constructions manifest considerable variability in cross-linguistic comparisons of complex predicate formation. In European languages, for example, typically one of the verbs in a verb-verb construction highlights a phase of an underspecified event while the matrix verb specifies the actual event. In contrast, serial verbs require each verb to provide a sub-event dimension within a complex event that is viewed holistically as unitary in syntax. This book contributes to an understanding of complex events, complex predicates and multi-verb constructions across languages, their syntactic constructional patterns and argument realisation.
Author | : Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2001-12-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139431153 |
This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
Author | : Brygida Rudzka |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027235449 |
This volume presents new developments in cognitive grammar and explores its descriptive and explanatory potential with respect to a wide range of language phenomena. These include the formation and use of locationals, causative constructions, adjectival and nominal expressions of oriented space, morphological layering, tense and aspect, and extended uses of verbal predicates. There is also a section on the affinities between cognitive grammar an early linguistic theories, both ancient and modern.