Anu Koskela
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anu Koskela plays a role.
Articles
2014 Shoes, boots and vertical polysemes: The dynamic construal and conventionality of word senses Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12:2, pp. 259–287 | Article
This paper considers lexical items such as shoe, whose meaning can be construed more broadly or narrowly (i.e., as either including or excluding boots), and examines how this type of “vertical” meaning variation relates to the distinction between ambiguity and vagueness. I argue that the broader… read more
2011 Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 125–146 | Article
This chapter examines the relationship between metonymy and cases of category broadening and narrowing and the resulting state of vertical polysemy (e.g., cat ‘domestic cat’ > ‘any feline’ and drink ‘consume liquid’ > ‘consume alcohol’). Broadening and narrowing have been argued to be motivated by… read more