Title: Semantic Profile as a Source of Polysemy: Insight from the Spatial-Configuration Verb fang in Mandarin
Authors: Liu, Mei-chun
Chang, Jui-ching
外國文學與語言學碩士班
Graduate Institute of Foreign  Literatures and Linguistics
Keywords: Lexical semantics;Semantic profile;Polysemy;Mandarin fang
Issue Date: 2015
Abstract: This study provides a linguistic insight to the issue of polysemy. It shows that semantic profile, an important cognitive mechanism, may be the source of verbal polysemy. With a close examination of corpus distribution of the high-frequency verb [fang], we find that the diverse range of semantically and constructionally distinct uses of fang can be viewed as profiling different stages of a motion-initiated event chain. We therefore propose that a multifaceted verb such as fang may involve a cognitively salient sequence of events as its conceptual basis and the various senses of the verb may highlight various portions of the lexical base as a result of semantic profile.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_3
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/136517
ISBN: 978-3-319-27194-1
978-3-319-27193-4
ISSN: 0302-9743
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_3
Journal: CHINESE LEXICAL SEMANTICS (CLSW 2015)
Volume: 9332
Begin Page: 24
End Page: 32
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