The Complexity of Verbal Semantics—An Intricate Relationship Between Qatal and Wayyiqtol

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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Section: Incorporating the Environment -A Stream Model And P-prototypmentioning

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Section: Incorporating the Environment -A Stream Model And P-prototypmentioning

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

2016

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“…Christian Locatell battles with another issue hotly debated in Biblical Hebrew scholarship: the nature of grammatical semantics in light of its inherent polysemy and the perspective from grammaticalization theory (Andrason 2011(Andrason , 2016. Locatell examines how the polysemy of grammatical meaning and its grammaticalization have been approached by cognitive linguistics and by more formal theories, in particular, generative grammar, in studies devoted to Biblical Hebrew.…”

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Introduction

Biberauer

2018

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“…This can be illustrated by the categorial split between Preterite-Present verbs and the Preterite in Germanic(Andrason & Locatell 2016), and the split polysemy of the qatal form in Biblical Hebrew. In both cases, the resultative proper value is (virtually) lost (the diachronic center of the map) such that certain more advanced senses are not connected to the other senses(Andrason 2016). Of course, the connectivity principle is obligatory from a conceptual and diachronic (i.e.…”

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The coordinatorsiandzin Polish: A cognitive-typological approach (Part 2)

2017

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Developed within the frame of cognitive and typological linguistics, the present study examines the taxonomical status of the lexemes i and z in Polish. To achieve this aim, the author analyzes the compliance of the two forms with the prototype of coordinate-hood and the structure of their maps of polyfunctionality. The evidence demonstrates that i is a canonical instantiation of the category of coordinate-hood while z is less canonical. Additionally, the two lexemes yield different maps of polyfunctionality (with distinct prototypicality nuclei), which reflects their distinct diachronic and conceptual origin. The map of i radiates from the value of ‘also’ while the map of z radiates from a comitative sense. This article – the last in a series of two – completes the presentation of the empirical evidence and interprets it within the adopted framework. The degrees of canonicity of i and z are determined and the semantic-functional maps of the two lexemes are compared.