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Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition

Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition PDF Author: Michael Fortescue
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004449523
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In this book Michael Fortescue presents an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages. The relationship among the cognitive verbs of individual languages is essentially one of metonymy, and the book investigates in detail the specific metonymic relationships involved, as revealed largely by the polysemous spread of word meanings. The data is projected against a circular ‘map’ of interrelated cognitive categories.