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Fortescue, Michael,

Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition / Michael Fortescue. - 1 online resource. - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 28 Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194 . - Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture ; 28. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441194. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Abbreviations / Chapter 1 Introduction / Chapter 2 Thinking in General / Chapter 3 Understanding / Chapter 4 Knowing / Chapter 5 Believing / Chapter 6 Remembering / Chapter 7 Thinking about / Chapter 8 Judging (Considering) / Chapter 9 Calculating / Chapter 10 Deciding / Chapter 11 Guessing / Chapter 12 Intending / Chapter 13 Imagining / Chapter 14 Expecting / Chapter 15 Wishing / Chapter 16 Emotional Feelings / Chapter 17 Surprise / Chapter 18 Experiencing (Feeling) / Chapter 19 Perceiving (Noticing) / Chapter 20 Recognizing / Chapter 21 Full Circle / Chapter 22 What a Surprise! A Closer Look at a Cinderella Category / Chapter 23 The Cross-Linguistic Expression of Categories of Emotion / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue. Chapter 24 Seeming: An Odd One Out? / Chapter 25 Guess: How a Single Category Can Involve All Others / Chapter 26 Conclusions / Back Matter -- Sources for Languages Cited / Appendix 1 A Sentimental Circle / Appendix 2 Raw Lexical Data / References / Indexes / Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- Author: Michael Fortescue -- 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.

ISBN: 9789004449527 9789004449510

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789004449527 DOI

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Literature.

LC Class. No.: PT2673

Dewey Class. No.: 430