I-XII

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Setting the scene
3. Polysemy and flexibility: introduction and overview 3
4. Cognitive models of polysemy 31
5. Polysemy: past and present 49
6. Cognitive approaches
7. Polysemy and conceptual blending 79
8. Reconsidering prepositional polysemy networks: the case of over* 95
9. Polysemy as flexible meaning: experiments with English get and Finnish pitää 161
10. Metonymic polysemy and its place in meaning extension 195
11. Synchrony/diachrony approaches
12. Polysemy in derivational affixes 217
13. The role of links and/or qualia in modifier-head constructions 233
14. Polysemy and bleaching 253
15. Polysemy in the lexicon and in discourse 267
16. Psycholinguistic approaches
17. Irony in conversation: salience, role, and context effects 297
18. Young children's and adults' use of figurative language: how important are cultural and linguistic influences? 317
19. Emerging patterns and evolving polysemies: the acquisition of get between four and ten years 333
20. Computational approaches
21. "I don't believe in word senses" 361
22. Senses and texts 393
23. Index 411