New from Mouton de Gruyter: Historical Semantics and Cognition

[Lisa Natascha Barrett]

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Historical Semantics and Cognition
Edited by Andreas Blank and Peter Koch
1999. 23 x 15,5 cm. VIII, 336 pages.
Cloth. DM 198,- /oeS 1445,- /sFr 176,- /approx. US$ 124.00
ISBN 3-11-016614-3
Cognitive Linguistics Research 13

The goal of this book is to reflect on a long-overdue
dialogue between academics of two apparently incompatible
bases of research: the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and
Historical Linguistics. The basis of the collected volume
was that the predominantly practical-based area of
Historical Linguistics will profit from theoretical input,
just as Cognitive Linguistics Research will be stimulated by
the more practical perspective provided by Historical
Linguistics.
The result is this publication, the first of its kind to
reflect such an overwhelming mutual feedback. The list of
authors, representing the most highly qualified experts in
their field, speaks for itself in describing the quality of
the contents of this book.

Contents
Andreas Blank and Peter Koch, Introduction: Historical
semantics and cognition; Section I: Theories and Models:
John R. Taylor, Cognitive semantics and structural
semantics; Helmut Luedtke, Diachronic semantics: towards a
unified theory of language change? Andreas Blank, Why do new
meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for
lexical semantic change; Dirk Geeraerts, Diachronic
prototype semantics. A digest; Francois Rastier, Cognitive
semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution
of classes; Section II: Descriptive categories: Ronald W.
Langacker, Losing control: grammaticization,
subjectification, and transparency; Elizabeth Closs
Traugott, The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic
change: a study in subjectification; Brigitte Nerlich and
David D. Clarke, Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative
strategy; Beatrice Warren, Laws of thought, knowledge and
lexical change; Section III: Case studies: Ekkehard Koenig
and Peter Siemund, Intensifiers as targets and sources of
semantic change; Thomas Krefeld, Cognitive ease and lexical
borrowing: the recategorisation of body parts in Romance;
Peter Koch, Cognitive aspects of semantic change and
polysemy: the semantic space have/be; List of contributors;
Index.

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