2. Meaning change and semantic shifts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. 1. “The lexical typology of semantic shifts”: An introduction 1
4. 2. Meaning change and semantic shifts 21
5. 3. Semantic shifts as sources of enantiosemy 67
6. 4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology 95
7. 5. Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages 131
8. 6. Studying colexification through massively parallell corpora 157
9. 7. Polysemy in action: The Swedish verb slå ‘hit, strike, beat’ in a crosslinguistic perspective 177
10. 8. Making do with minimal lexica. Light verb constructions with make/do in pidgin lexica 223
11. 9. Extended uses of body-related temperature expressions 249
12. 10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages 285
13. 11. Motivational scenarios and semantic frames for social relations in Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages – friends, enemies, and others 335
14. 12. Tree, firewood and fire in the languages of Sahul 355
15. 13. Investigating lexical motivation in French and Italian 423
16. 14. Types of motivation in folk plant taxonomies 457
17. 15. Differences and interactions between scientific and folk biological taxonomy 493
18. 16. Holistic motivation: Systematization and application to the Cooking domain 533
19. 17. Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective: An assessment of the variation and steps towards explanation 555
20. Subject index 577
21. Language index 581
22. Author index 591