Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Abbreviations / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 2 Thinking in General / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 3 Understanding / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 4 Knowing / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 5 Believing / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 6 Remembering / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 7 Thinking about / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 8 Judging (Considering) / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 9 Calculating / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 10 Deciding / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 11 Guessing / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 12 Intending / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 13 Imagining / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 14 Expecting / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 15 Wishing / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 16 Emotional Feelings / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 17 Surprise / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 18 Experiencing (Feeling) / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 19 Perceiving (Noticing) / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 20 Recognizing / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 21 Full Circle / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 22 What a Surprise! A Closer Look at a Cinderella Category / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 23 The Cross-Linguistic Expression of Categories of Emotion / Author: Michael Fortescue.

Chapter 24 Seeming: An Odd One Out? / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 25 Guess: How a Single Category Can Involve All Others / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Chapter 26 Conclusions / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Back Matter -- Sources for Languages Cited / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Appendix 1 A Sentimental Circle / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Appendix 2 Raw Lexical Data / Author: Michael Fortescue -- References / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Indexes / Author: Michael Fortescue.

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.

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