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Title Historical semantics and cognition / edited by Andreas Blank, Peter Koch
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages)
Series Cognitive linguistics research ; 13
Cognitive linguistics research ; 13.
Contents Introduction: historical semantics and cognition / Andreas Blank, Peter Koch 1 -- Section I Theories and Models -- Cognitive semantics and structural semantics / John R. Taylor 17 -- Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change? / Helmut Ludtke 49 -- Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change / Andreas Blank 61 -- Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest / Dirk Geeraerts 91 -- Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes / Francois Rastier 109 -- Section II Descriptive categories -- Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency / Ronald W. Langacker 147 -- Rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectification / Elizabeth Closs Traugott 177 -- Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy / Brigitte Nerlich, David D. Clarke 197 -- Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change / Beatrice Warren 215 -- Intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change / Ekkehard Konig, Peter Siemund 237 -- Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorization of body parts in Romance / Thomas Krefeld 259 -- Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space HAVE/BE / Peter Koch 279
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Semantics, Historical -- Psychological aspects
Cognition.
Cognition
cognition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
Cognition
Kognitive Psychologie
Historische Semantik
Cognitive semantics.
Taalverandering.
Semântica (aspectos psicológicos)
Cognição.
Berlin <1996>
Form Electronic book
Author Blank, Andreas, 1961-2001.
Koch, Peter, 1951-
ISBN 9783110804195
3110804190