Using the methodology of diachronic cognitive onomasiology, as developed in two projects at Tübingen University, the study discusses polygenetic semantic parallels in semantic change, focussing on those that are due to fundamental cognitive constants. The cognitive and formal relations between a source and a target concept are identified through a two-dimensional grid. The approach is exemplified for the semantic domain of eye (eyelash, eyebrow, eyelid, and eyeball). The study provides a list of all the cognitive solutions to create lexical innovations chosen in the language sample. Together with cultural and linguistic categorization, it also explains the different options chosen by the languages for lexical conceptualisation and gives insight to the ongoing debate on linguistic relativity.
2024. Objects as human bodies: cross-linguistic colexifications between words for body parts and objects. Linguistic Typology 28:3 ► pp. 379 ff.
Tjuka, Annika & Johann-Mattis List
2024. Partial colexifications reveal directional tendencies in object naming. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12:1 ► pp. 95 ff.
Yacopetti, Eleanor & Maïa Ponsonnet
2024. A semantic typology of emotion nouns in Australian Indigenous languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics 44:1 ► pp. 29 ff.
2022. Red, black, and white hearts: ‘heart’, ‘liver’, and ‘lungs’ in typological and areal perspective. Linguistic Typology 26:2 ► pp. 349 ff.
Szeverényi, Sándor
2017. Proceedings of the 4th Mikola Conference - 14-15, November 2014 [Proceedings of the 4th Mikola Conference - 14-15, November 2014, 51], ► pp. 107 ff.
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