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Continuity and discontinuity in the semantics of the Latin preposition per: a cognitive hypothesis
Luisa BrucaleEgle Mocciarosubject
Discontinuity (linguistics)Cognitive grammarSemantic mapEarly Latin Cognitive Grammar prepositional phrase semantic map spatial meaningCognitionLinguisticsMathematicsPrepositional phraseSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguisticadescription
Abstract We propose a description of the semantic network of the Latin prepositional phrase per ‘through’ + Accusative in the early stage of this language. Drawing upon the insights of Cognitive Grammar, we analyze the role of the schematic import in the spread from basic to abstract meanings. Finally, we draw a map of the polysemous network of per, showing that the continuity of the different, but consistently linked, meanings does not necessarily imply the unidirectionality of the concrete-to-abstract shifts.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-01 |