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In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually broadened from categories in the lexical and lexico-grammatical domain to morphological, syntactic, and phonological categories. The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories. A first set of papers analyzes the polysemy of such lexical categories as prepositions and scalar particles, and looks at the import of polysemy in frame-based dictionary definitions. A second set shows that noun classes, case, and locative prefixes constitute meaningful and polysemous categories. Three papers, then, pay attention to polysemy from a psychological perspective, looking for psychological evidence of polysemy in lexical categories.
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POLYSEMY IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E. F. KONRAD KOERNER (University of Ottawa) Series IV – CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY Advisory Editorial Board Raimo Anttila (Los Angeles); Lyle Campbell (Christchurch, N.Z.) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh); Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Berlin); E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.); Hans-Jürgen Sasse (Köln) Volume 177 Hubert Cuyckens and Britta Zawada (eds) Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997 POLYSEMY IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Amsterdam, 1997 Edited by HUBERT CUYCKENS University of Leuven BRITTA ZAWADA University of South Africa JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences — Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (5th : 1997 : Amsterdam, Netherlands) Polysemy in cognitive linguistics : selected papers form the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997 / edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Britta Zawada. p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, ISSN 0304-0763 ; v. 177) Held July 14–19, 1997, Free University of Amsterdam. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The spatial and non-spatial senses of the German preposition über / Birgitta Meex -- Scalar particles and the sequential space construction / Tuomas Huumo -- A frame-based approach to polysemy / Willy Martin -- Where do the senses of Cora va’a come from? / Eugene H. Casad -- Why quirky case really isn’t quirky, or, How to treat dative sickness in Icelandic / Michael B. Smith -- When a dance resembles a tree : a polysemy analysis of three Setswana noun classes / Kari-Anne Selvik -Systemic polysemy in the Southern Bantu noun class system / A.P. Hendrikse -- Psycholinguistic perspectives on polysemy / Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. & Teenie Matlock -- The embodied approach to the polysemy of the spatial preposition on / Dinara A. Beitel, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. & Paul Sanders -Processing polysemous, homonymous, and vague adjectives / Frank Brisard, Gert van Rillaer & Dominick Sandra. 1. Polosemy--Congresses. 2. Cognitive grammar--Congresses. I. Cuyckens, H. II. Zawada, Britta. III. Titlel. IV. Series. P325.5.P65.I58 1997 401’.43--dc21 2001035802 ISBN 90 272 3683 6 (Eur.) / 1 55619 894 9 (US) © 2001 – John Benjamins B.V. No part