Cognitive Linguistics And Lexical Change: Motion Verbs From Latin To Romance

COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LEXICAL CHANGE CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE – Series IV issn 0304-0763 General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin [email protected] Associate Editor JOSEPH C. SALMONS University of Wisconsin-Madison Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT) is a theory-oriented series which welcomes contributions from scholars who have significant proposals to make towards the advancement of our understanding of language, its structure, functioning and development. CILT has been established in order to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of linguistic opinions of scholars who do not necessarily accept the prevailing mode of thought in linguistic science. It offers an outlet for meaningful contributions to the current linguistic debate, and furnishes the diversity of opinion which a healthy discipline must have. A complete list of titles in this series can be found on http://benjamins.com/catalog/cilt Advisory Editorial Board Sheila Embleton (Toronto) Elly van Gelderen (Tempe, Ariz.) John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Manfred Krifka (Berlin) Martin Maiden (Oxford) Martha Ratliff (Detroit, Mich.) E. Wyn Roberts (Vancouver, B.C.) Klaas Willems (Ghent) Volume 331 Natalya I. Stolova Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Change. Motion Verbs from Latin to Romance COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LEXICAL CHANGE MOTION VERBS FROM LATIN TO ROMANCE NATALYA I. STOLOVA Colgate University JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/cilt.331 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2014015364 isbn 978 90 272 4850 3 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 6986 7 (e-book) © 2015 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Preface & Acknowledgments vii chapter 1 Objectives and key concepts 1 1.1 Goals of the present study  1 1.2 Motion verbs in the Romance language family  3 1.3 Levels of lexical change: Onomasiology and semasiology  5 1.4 The historical cognitive linguistics framework as a new type of diachrony  7 chapter 2 Cognitive onomasiology and cognitive typology of motion encoding 2.1 Cognitive onomasiology  17