Jack-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon and Lisi Ogon: The Analyzability and Compositionality of Plant Terms in English and Polish

• Authors: Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper offers an analysis of common plant names appearing in English and Polish in the light of cognitive linguistics. Assuming, as cognitivists do that meanings of lexical items are partly decomposable, we use the notions of analyzability and compositionality in the sense of Langacker (1987, 1991) as a diagnosis for establishing the scale of semantic transparency of such expressions.

Keywords

EN

cognitive linguistics; semantics

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 32
• Pages: 191-211

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos

• Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland

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