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 |
Appears in Collections: | Conferences Paper |