Polysemy, Diachrony, and the Circle of Cognition

by Michael Fortescue

Verbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In this book Michael Fortescue presents an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004449515
• ISBN13: 9789004449510
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 244 Pages