Polysemy
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The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9783110895698
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. List of contributors
  3. Setting the scene
  4. Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview
  5. Cognitive models of polysemy
  6. Polysemy: past and present
  7. Cognitive approaches
  8. Polysemy and conceptual blending
  9. Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over
  10. Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää
  11. Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension
  12. Synchrony/diachrony approaches
  13. Polysemy in derivational affixes
  14. The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions
  15. Polysemy and bleaching
  16. Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse
  17. Psycholinguistic approaches
  18. Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects
  19. Young children’s and adults’ use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences?
  20. Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years
  21. Computational approaches
  22. “I don’t believe in word senses”
  23. Senses and texts
  24. Index