The Cognitive Basis of Polysemy

The volume aims to explore the relationship between the theoretical modelling and the mental representation of the perceived multiplicity of lexical meanings. The collection is divided into three thematic sections, discussing psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic evidence concerning polysemy; theoretical considerations regarding the representation of different types of meaning variation phenomena; and polysemy connected (in a variety of ways) to syntactic constructions. A common theme for the contributions is the recognition that consideration of a range of so far neglected types of evidence (both from within and from outside of linguistics proper) is essential to achieve further progress in polysemy research.

Autorentext

The Editors: Marina Rakova is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Philology, Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia). She obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 from Edinburgh University. Her main research interests lie in the areas of lexical semantics and the philosophy of mind. Gergely Peth is currently assistant lecturer at the Department of German Linguistics, University of Debrecen (Hungary). He specialises in lexical semantics and defended his Ph.D. dissertation on polysemy in Hungarian nouns in 2005. Csilla Rákosi is research fellow in the Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her fields of interest include argumentation theory and the philosophy of linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in 2005.

Inhalt

Contents: Ekaterini Klepousniotou: Reconciling Linguistics and Psycholinguistics: On the Psychological Reality of Linguistic Polysemy Gregory L. Murphy: Parsimony and the Psychological Representation of Polysemous Words Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr./Julia E. Lonergan: Identifying, Specifying and Processing Metaphorical Word Meanings Anna A. Zalizniak: The Phenomenon of Polysemy and Ways to Describe It Gergely Peth : On Irregular Polysemy Georges Kleiber: Polysemy, Transfers of Meaning and Integrated Metonymy Mária Ladányi: Systematic Polysemy of Verbs in Hungarian Ronnie Cann/Patricia Mabugu: Constructional Polysemy: the Applicative Construction in ChiShona Balás Szilárd: Remarks on the Aspectual Polysemy of the Hungarian Verbal Particle el `away/off .