: Dirk Geeraerts
: Words and Other Wonders Papers on Lexical and Semantic Topics
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110219128
: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 204.20
:
: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 504
: Wasserzeichen/DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
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The volume brings together seventeen previously published articles on lexical and semantic topics by one of the most influential authors in cognitive linguistic lexicology. Spanning the period from the late 1980s to recent years, the collection features a number of papers that may be considered classics. The book serves as an excellent introduction to the field.

Key Features:

  • Excellen introduction to the field
  • Includes papers from the late 1980s to recent years that may be considered as classics


Dirk Geeraerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Frontmatter1
Table of contents7
Publication sources9
Chapter 1. Prospects and problems of prototype theory13
Chapter 2. Where does prototypicality come from?37
Chapter 3. The semantic structure of Dutch over58
Chapter 4. Salience phenomena in the lexicon. A typology84
Chapter 5. Vagueness's puzzles, polysemy's vagaries109
Chapter 6. Classical definability and the monosemic bias159
Chapter 7. The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch185
Chapter 8. The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions208
Chapter 9. Looking back at anger. Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns237
Chapter 10. Beer and semantics262
Chapter 11. Cultural models of linguistic standardization282
Chapter 12. Caught in a web of irony: Job and his embarassed God317
Chapter 13. The lexicographical treatment of prototypical polysemy337
Chapter 14. The definitional practice of dictionaries and the cognitive semantic conception of polysemy355
Chapter 15. Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics377
Chapter 16. The theoretical and descriptive development of lexical semantics408
Chapter 17. Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics426
Backmatter455