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The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts

Author
PÄnivi Juvonen; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Published
Berlin/Boston, GERMANY : De Gruyter Mouton, 2016.
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1 online resource (608).
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Table of contents ; 1. "The lexical typology of semantic shifts": An introduction ; 2. Meaning change and semantic shifts ; 3. Semantic shifts as sources of enantiosemy ; 4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology, 5. Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages 6. Studying colexification through massively parallell corpora ; 7. Polysemy in action: The Swedish verb slå 'hit, strike, beat' in a crosslinguistic perspective, 8. Making do with minimal lexica. Light verb constructions with make/do in pidgin lexica 9. Extended uses of body-related temperature expressions ; 10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages, 11. Motivational scenarios and semantic frames for social relations in Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages -- friends, enemies, and others 12. Tree, firewood and fire in the languages of Sahul ; 13. Investigating lexical motivation in French and Italian, and 14. Types of motivation in folk plant taxonomies 15. Differences and interactions between scientific and folk biological taxonomy ; 16. Holistic motivation: Systematization and application to the Cooking domain
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ISBN
3110377675 (ebk)
9783110377675
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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