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Author:   S.L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138980662

ISBN 10:   1138980668
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   26 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1: On the content of prototype categories: questions of word meaning 1. A survey of category types in natural language Cecil H. Brown 2. Possible verbs and the structure of events William Croft 3. Prototypical considerations on modal meanings Steven Cushing 4. Belief ascription, metaphor, and intensional identification Afzal Ballim, Yorick Wilks, John Barnden 5. Negated beliefs and non-monotonic reasoning Ryszard Zuber 6. Lexical hierarchies and Ojibwa noun derivation Richard A. Rhodes 7. Some English terms of insult invoking sex organs: evidence of a pragmatic driver for semantics Keith Allan 8. The lexicographical treatment of prototypical polysemy Dirk Geeraerts Part 2: On the content of prototype categories: further questions 9. Settings, participants, and grammatical relations Ronald W. Langacker 10. On the semantics of compounds and genitives in English Paul Kay and Karl Zimmer 11. A notional approach to the French verbal adjective Roger McLure and Paul Reed 12. Prototypical uses of grammatical resources in the expression of linguistic action René Dirven 13. Toward a theory of syntactic prototypes Margaret E. Winters 14. Accent in prototypical wh questions Dwight Bolinger 15. Prototypical manners of linguistic action Anne-Marie Diller 16. Where partonomies and taxonomies meet Barbara Tversky Part 3: On the context of prototype methods: questions of word meaning 17. ‘Prototypes save’: on the uses and abuses of the notion of ‘prototype’ in linguistics and related fields Anna Wierzbicka 18. Prototype theory and its implications for lexical analysis Adrienne Lehrer 19. Prototype theory and lexical semantics D. A. Cruse 20. Representation, prototypes, and centrality Claude Vandeloise 21. A few untruths about ‘lie’ S.L. Tsolhatzidis Part 4: On the context of prototype methods: further questions 22. On ‘folk’ and ‘scientific’ linguistic beliefs Roy Harris 23. Gestures during discourse: the contextual structuring of thought Nancy L. Dray and David McNeill 24. Why words have to be vague Roger McLure 25. Schemas, prototypes, and models: in search of the unity of the sign John R. Taylor 26. Psycholinguistic semantics, robust vagueness, and the philosophy of language Terence Horgan.

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