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Publication details [#13870]
Babina, Lyudmila and Ekaterina Parshina. 2012. Cognitive foundations of appellatives derived from proper names. Issues in Cognitive Linguistics 9 (3) : 23–31. 9 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Russian
Keywords
Place, Publisher
The Russian Cognitive Linguists Association
Abstract
The article dwells on the formation of appellatives derived from proper names, via metaphtonymy and other cognitive mechanisms (perspectivisation, defocussing, combination, completion, and elaboration). The conceptual content underlying a proper name is considered as a matrix-format piece of knowledge, or a cognitive matrix which unites cognitive contexts that determine the way the appellative is construed.