Historical Cognitive Linguistics

Frontmatter

Pages I-IV

Table of contents

Pages V-VI

Preface

Pages VII-VIII

1. History and Development

Introduction: On the emergence of diachronic cognitive linguistics

Winters, Margaret E.

Pages 3-28

2. The Evolution of Language

On constructing a research model for historical cognitive linguistics (HCL): Some theoretical considerations

Frank, Roslyn M. / Gontier, Nathalie

Pages 31-69

Metaphor in discourse history

Musolff, Andreas

Pages 70-90

3. 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

Luraghi, Silvia

Pages 93-131

Finite and gerundive complementation in Modern and Present-day English: Semantics, variation and change

Heyvaert, Liesbet / Cuyckens, Hubert

Pages 132-160

4. Cognitive Approaches to Meaning

Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: material for object mappings in the OED

Allan, Kathryn

Pages 163-196

The roles of reader construal and lexicographic authority in the interpretation of Middle English texts

Sylvester, Louise

Pages 197-220

5. The Expression of Emotions over Time

Conceptual networking theory in metaphor evolution: Diachronic variation in models of love

Trim, Richard

Pages 223-260

Cognitive historical approaches to emotions: Pride

Fabiszak, Małgorzata / Hebda, Anna

Pages 261-297

English words for emotions and their metaphors

Tissari, Heli

Pages 298-330

6. Afterword

Prospects for the past: Perspectives for cognitive diachronic semantics

Geeraerts, Dirk

Pages 333-356

Index

Pages 357-360