(Cognitive linguistics research : Volume 47). — Berlin/New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 360 p. — ISBN 978-3-11-022643-0, e-ISBN 978-3-11-022644-7, ISSN 1861-4132.The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions.In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint.Editors: Dirk Geeraerts, John R. Taylor.
Honorary editors: René Dirven, Ronald W. Langacker.Table of contents.
Preface.
History and Development.
Introduction: On the emergence of diachronic cognitive linguistics.
Margaret E. Winters.
The Evolution of Language.
On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): Some theoretical considerations.
Roslyn M. Frank and Nathalie Gontier.
Metaphor in discourse history.
Andreas Musolff.
Cognitive Approaches to Syntactic Change.
Where do beneficiaries come from and how do they come about? Sources for beneficiary expressions in Classical Greek and the typology of beneficiary.
Silvia Luraghi.
Finite and gerundive complementation in Modern and Present-day English: Semantics, variation and change.
Liesbet Heyvaert and Hubert Cuyckens.
Cognitive Approaches to Meaning.
Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: material for object mappings in the OED.
Kathryn Allan.
The roles of reader construal and lexicographic authority in the interpretation of Middle English texts.
Louise Sylvester.
The Expression of Emotions over Time.
Conceptual networking theory in metaphor evolution: Diachronic variation in models of love.
Richard Trim.
Cognitive historical approaches to emotions: Pride.
Małgorzata Fabiszak and Anna Hebda.
English words for emotions and their metaphors.
Heli Tissari.
Afterword.
Prospects for the past: Perspectives for cognitive diachronic semantics.
Dirk Geeraerts.Index.
