Book review: N.I. Stolova. Cognitive Linguistics and lexical change. Motion verbs from Latin to Romance. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015

Ibarretxe Antuñano, Iraide (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This book studies the semantic evolution of translocativemotion verbs fromLatin to Romance from a historical cognitive linguistics perspective. It is divided into ten chapters plus references and two indexes, one for language and language families and another for subjects and terms. It has two main goals: (i) to apply cognitive linguisticsmethodologies and theoretical tools (mainly, lexicalisation patterns and conceptual metaphor) to explain the onomasiological (Chapters 2–4) and semasiological (Chapters 5–7) evolution of motion verbs, and (ii) to bring useful insights from (Romance) historical linguistic practice into cognitive linguistic research (Chapters 8–9).
Chapter 1 outlines the main goals, explains key concepts (motion verb, lexical change), and contextualises the research to follow. This investigation examines how the structural and semantic characteristics of Latin motion verbs diachronically develop into Romance from both a general Pan-Romance stance as well as a language-specific level. Ten categories of translocative motion are examined: one general motion (neutral GO), six path-related (TOWARD, AWAY, INSIDE, OUTSIDE, UPWARD, DOWNWARD), and three manner-related (WALK, RUN, JUMP). Data mainly come from ten languages...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1075/rcl.00059.iba

Año: 2020

Publicado en: Review of cognitive linguistics 18, 1 (2020), 275-281
ISSN: 1877-9751

Factor impacto JCR: 0.405 (2020)

Categ. JCR: LINGUISTICS rank: 162 / 193 = 0.839 (2020) - Q4 - T3

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.253 - Developmental and Educational Psychology (Q2) - Linguistics and Language (Q2) - Language and Linguistics (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/Psylex H11-17R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FFI2017-82460-P

Tipo y forma: (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Lingüística General (Dpto. Lingüíst.y Liter.Hispán.)