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Historical Semantics and Cognition

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
1999
ISBN
3110166143, 9783110166149
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10060944 bytes)
Series
Cognitive Linguistic Research
Edition
First
Pages
327\327
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-01-15 18:04:21

Description

Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.

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