The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts.

Intro -- Table of contents -- 1. "The lexical typology of semantic shifts": An introduction -- 2. Meaning change and semantic shifts -- 3. Semantic shifts as sources of enantiosemy -- 4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology -- 5. Corpus methods for the investigation of antonyms across languages -- 6. Studying colexification through massively parallell corpora -- 7. Polysemy in action: The Swedish verb slå 'hit, strike, beat' in a crosslinguistic perspective -- 8. Making do with minimal lexica. Light verb constructions with make/do in pidgin lexica -- 9. Extended uses of body-related temperature expressions -- 10. The semantic domain of emotion in Eskimo and neighbouring languages -- 11. Motivational scenarios and semantic frames for social relations in Slavic, Romance and Germanic languages - friends, enemies, and others -- 12. Tree, firewood and fire in the languages of Sahul -- 13. Investigating lexical motivation in French and Italian -- 14. Types of motivation in folk plant taxonomies -- 15. Differences and interactions between scientific and folk biological taxonomy -- 16. Holistic motivation: Systematization and application to the Cooking domain -- 17. Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective: An assessment of the variation and steps towards explanation -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index.

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