Polysemy

By Brigitte Nerlich

About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on, polysemy has become one of the hottest topics in linguistics and in the cognitive sciences at large. The book deals with the topic from a wide variety of viewpoints. The cognitive approach is supplemented and supported by diachronic, psycholinguistic, developmental, comparative, and computational perspectives. The chapters, written by some of the most eminent specialists in the field, are all underpinned by detailed discussions of methodology and theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110176165
• ISBN13: 9783110176162
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary