Jack-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon and Lisi Ogon: The Analyzability and Compositionality of Plant Terms in English and Polish
Jack-Go-To-Bed-At-Noon and Lisi Ogon: The Analyzability and Compositionality of Plant Terms in English and Polish
Author(s): Agnieszka Mierzwińska-HajnosSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: plant terms; analyzability; compositionality; cognitive linguistics
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
- Issue Year: 32/2008
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 191-211
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English