Contains revised papers from a September 1996 symposium which provided a forum for synchronically and diachronically oriented scholars to exchange ideas and for American and European cognitive linguists to confront representatives of different directions in European structural semantics. Papers are in sections on theories and models, descriptive categories, and case studies, and examine areas such as cognitive and structural semantics, diachronic prototype semantics, synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy, and intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change.

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, and reproduction. While principally focusing on the early modern approaches to the lower functions of the soul, readers will discover the roots of these approaches back to the Ancient times, as the volume highlights the role of three strands that help shape the study of life in the Medieval and early modern natural philosophies. From late antiquity to the early modern period, the vegetative soul and its cognate concepts have played a substantial role in specifying life, living functions, and living bodies, sometimes blurring the line between living and non-living nature, and, at other moments, resulting in a strong restriction of life to a mechanical system of operations and powers. Unearthing the history of the vegetative soul as a shrub of interconnected concepts, the 24 contributions of the volume fill a crucial gap in scholarship, ultimately outlining the importance of vegetal processes of incessant proliferation, generation, and organic growth as the roots of life in natural philosophical interpretations.

This students' manual provides an introductory overview of lexical semantics based on the present state of theoretical discussion. It explains important 'basics'such as lexical relations, the distinction between polysemy and homonymy, and the problems posed by the concept of 'meaning'. Alongside structural semantics and semantic approaches of a generative persuasion, the book also gives an introduction to cognitive semantics (with special reference to prototype theory and the scenes-and-frames approach). The manual also gives detailed coverage of historical semantics: fundamentals, typology and motives of meaning change, and - in a broader perspective - various kinds of lexical change, including word-formation, loan-words, etc.

In der 1970 gegrundeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien veroeffentlicht. Grundungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe (Herausgeber bis 1991), Gunther Patzig (bis 1999) und Wolfgang Wieland (bis 2003). Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von Jurgen Mittelstrass mitherausgegeben.

The study lays bare the cross-language principles governing semantic innovation. The theoretical approach builds a) on a semantic/semiotic model integrating conceptual knowledge and language knowledge, and b) the associative principles similarity, contrast and contiguity. On this basis it is possible to chart and typologize the development potentials and the linguistic processes determining meaning change over time. In addition, an entirely new systematization of language-user motives for semantic innovation is advanced and polysemy is discussed as a synchronic representation of meaning change.

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With reference to problems of lexis and grammar in the Romance languages and of metalinguistics in general, the articles collected in this volume demonstrate that in their complementarity the onomasiological and semasiological perspectives represent indispensable points of reference in any form of linguistics regarding itself as 'cognitive'. With some slight differences in perspective, the articles discuss issues posed by synchronic and diachronic lexicology and grammar, analyzing selected conceptual and functional areas in detail and casting light on problems of grammatology and the conceptualization of language.