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Neki vidovi kognitivne semantike u rekonstrukciji semantičkih struktura
Some Aspects of Cognitive Semantics in the Reconstruction of Semantic Structures

Author(s): Ida Raffaelli
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Hrvatsko filološko društvo
Keywords: cognitive semantics; lexical categories; diachrony of linguistic structures; Croatian

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a less researched theoretical aspect of cognitive semantics which describes semantic changes of semantic structures. This paper points out some theoretical and methodological ossibilities of cognitive semantics in the reconstruction of semantic structures. The author stresses two characteristic of prototypically organized conceptual and lexical categories - flexibility and dynamic as important for the description of semantic structures as diachronically organized structures. Within this theoretical and methodological framework lexical structures are described as polysemous with diachronic dynamic between different types of meanings.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 49-50
  • Page Range: 125-141
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian