Polysemy, Prototypes, and Radial Categories

Lewandowska‐Tomaszczyk, Barbara

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738632.013.0006

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“…Zwarts (2010); (b) so-called 'second generation maps', as proposed by Sansò (2010); and (c) radial (mental) maps and semantic spaces (cf. Brugman and Lakoff 2006;Evans and Green 2006;Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2007;Geeraerts 2010). What unifies these types of maps (and what is also recognisable in S-maps) is that they aim to reflect the geography of the human mind (cf.…”

Section: Semantic Maps and Their Shortcomingsmentioning

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From vectors to waves and streams: An alternative approach to semantic maps

Andrason

2016

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This article designs a method of improving traditional, qualitative semantic maps based on grammaticalisation paths, by including both quantitative data (frequency) and information concerning a gram's environment (the relation to the other maps). The incorporation of qualitative evidence transforms vectored maps into waves, while the introduction of the contextual factor combines waves organised along the same grammaticalisation template into a stream. The structure of a wave delivers, in turn, the statistical prototypicality of a gram (i.e. the prototypicality that is conditioned by the gram's own wave), whereas the structure of the stream yields product prototypicality (i.e. the prototypicality that is a combination of the gram's wave and the other waves of the stream). It is additionally hypothesised that the product prototypicality may be an overt indicator of the psychological perception of the grams by speakers.

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From vectors to waves and streams: An alternative approach to semantic maps

Andrason

2016

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“…This meaning is mostly connected to the others and motivate some of them; moreover, it is one of the most frequent meanings in the sample (see Section 3; for more detailed discussion of the prototype theory see Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2007). Analogous to other polysemic linguistic categories, such as prefixes that often have some basic spatial meaning as the prototype, the prototype of the radial category under scrutiny in the present study is "the most spatial one," where the object and the driving force of oscillation are concrete objects of the real world.…”

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Four Ways to Tremble in Russian: A Case Study of a Radial Category

Anastasia

2016

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Many dictionaries and other lexicographic resources often describe near-synonyms using one another, which makes it difficult for a foreign language learner to make a choice between them. Although it is true that near-synonyms can be used when referring to the same state of affairs, they often involve different construals, insofar as they represent different ways of viewing the situation in question. Quite often, not all alternatives are possible in a given context, but it is not an easy task to pinpoint which alternative is possible in which context. In this study I consider a group of nearly synonymous verbs with the meaning 'tremble' in Russian and attempt to build a radial category network of meanings based on corpus data. I show that the network accommodates the similarities among the verbs, but at the same time also brings out the differences among them.Section 1 contains a short description of approaches to near-synonyms. My data are described in Section 2. Section 3 attempts a quantitative analysis of frequencies of the verbs and a network of their meanings. The results are summarized in Section 4.

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“…Prototype theory emerged as an alternative to the classical view of categorisation (see Croft & Cruse 2004, Kleiber 1990, Lakoff 1987, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2007, Taylor 2003 for discussions). It proposes an alternative account to the structure of categories.…”

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