Historical Semantics and CognitionAndreas Blank, Peter Koch The goal of this book is to reflect on a long-overdue dialogue between academics of two apparently incompatible bases of research: the fields of cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics. The basis of the collected volume was that the predominantly practical-based area of historical linguistics will profit from theoretical input, just as cognitive linguistics reserach will be stimulated by the more practical perspective provided by historical linguistics. The result is this publication, the first of its kind to reflect such an overwhelming mutual feedback. |
Contents
historical semantics and cognition | 1 |
Cognitive semantics and structural semantics | 17 |
Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology | 61 |
Diachronic prototype semantics A digest | 91 |
Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy | 197 |
Laws of thought knowledge and lexical change | 215 |
Intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change | 237 |
List of contributors | 307 |
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