This collected volume presents radically new directions which are emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions about the radial network ...
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Introduction: New directions in cognitive lexical semantic research
John Taylor, Hubert Cuyckens and René Dirven
Meaning potentials and context: Some consequences...
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Hubert Cuyckens is Professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
René Dirven is Professor Emeritus at the University of Duisburg, Germany.
John Taylor teaches a...