Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ Foreword vii
4. Introduction ix
5. The Spatial and Non-Spatial Senses of the German Preposition Über 1
6. Scalar Particles and the Sequential Space Construction 37
7. A Frame-Based Approach to Polysemy 57
8. Where Do the Senses of Cora Va’a- Come From? 83
9. Why Quirky Case Really Isn’t Quirky. Or how to treat dative sickness in Icelandic 115
10. When a Dance Resembles a Tree. A polysemy analysis of three Setswana noun classes 161
11. Systemic Polysemy in the Southern Bantu Noun Class System 185
12. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Polysemy 213
13. The Embodied Approach to the Polysemy of the Spatial Preposition On 241
14. Processing Polysemous, Homonymous, and Vague Adjectives 261
15. Name Index 285
16. Subject Index 289
17. Addresses 295