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Space-to-time mappings and temporal concepts
Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...
Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese
07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterSemantic and functional diversification of reciprocal and middle prefixes in New Caledonian and other Austronesian languages
This article analyses the functions and meanings of the reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic (POc) prefix
Keywords: aspect, Austronesian, collective, cooperative, iterative, middle, New Caledonia, Oceanic, pluractionality, polysemy, reciprocal, reduplication, reflexive, semantic change, transitivity, voice
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThe polysemy of the sign: From quantum computing to the garden of forking paths
In both natural language and biology, signs are polysemous, with a range of possible meanings before interaction-in-context determines their value...
Keywords: bio-semiotics, polysemy, digital/analogue, superposition, interdisciplinary research
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterTowards a cognitive analysis of polysemy, ambiguity, and vagueness
This article reviews the theoretical and methodological status of the traditional distinction between denotational ambiguity and vagueness, concluding that it is valid and necessary to use it in modeling natural lexical representation...
Keywords: polysemy, categorization, lexical semantics
06/2001 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterRicur and Saussure: On meaning and time
This paper attempts to arrange a meeting between Ricur and Saussure through their texts...
Keywords: hermeneutics, semantics, meaning, time, Context, polysemy
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterLexico-semantic universals: A critical overview
Are there any word-meanings which are absolute and precise lexico-semantic universals, and if so, what kind of meanings are they? This paper assesses the status, in a diverse range of languages, of about 100 meanings which have been proposed by various scholars (linguists, anthropologists, psychologists) as potential universals...
Keywords: basic vocabulary, lexical universals, Lexicon, Natural Semantic Metalanguage, polysemy, semantic primes, semantics
07/2001 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterCrosslinguistic grammaticalization patterns of the allative
Goal-marking morphemes, or
Keywords: allative, case, dative, grammaticalization, location, motion, polysemy, purposive, semantic map, syncretism
12/2007 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter