Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change

How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20344958
AutoresCynthia A Johnson (Ghent University), Peter Alexander Kerkhof (Ghent University), Leonid Kulikov (Ghent University), Леонид Куликов (0000-0002-7825-4866, Ghent University Hospital), Esther Le Mair (Ghent University), Jóhanna Barðdal (0000-0003-0164-4249, Ghent University)
Año2019
Volumen36
Número4
Páginas463-508
Fecha de publicación2019-12-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiachronica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/dia.00014.bar
OpenAlexW2969190796
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas83

In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering six conceptual metaphors which all co-occur with non-canonical encoding of subjects in Indo-European. Careful scrutiny of the relevant data reveals a semantic development most certainly inherited from Indo-European; hence, we reconstruct a dat -‘succeeds’ construction at different levels of schematicity for Proto-Indo-European, including a novel reconstruction of a conceptual metaphor, success is motion forward , and the mapping between this metaphor and the verb-class-specific argument structure construction. Hence, this article offers a systematic analysis of regularity in semantic change, highlighting the importance of predicate and argument structure for lexical semantic developments

Grammaticalization · Lexical item · Lexical Semantics · Linguistics · Metaphor · Semantic change · Verb · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation