“In view of the changing environment and shifting concerns of languageusers, conceptual categories, and what count as members of these categoriesare liable to undergo modification over time” (Taylor 2002). Grounded in thebourgeoning social-cultural develo...[继续阅读]

    Although break verbs have already been meticulously examined undera wide range of theoretical frameworks, there are some problems remainunresolved.Firstly, previous studies attend to the argument realization and semanticstructure of break verbs primarily ...[继续阅读]

    Admittedly, DPS brings prototype and semantic change together into anoverall model of the diachronic structure of semantic categories. But in spiteof this, DPS is not thoroughly adopted as it is. The present study maintains thatthe non-equality and non-di...[继续阅读]

    In general, the intensional readings of pò evolve in systematic ways acrosstime. The diachronic semantic development of pò across the physical andmetaphorical domains verifies our hypothesis that the intensional readings oflexical items always have their ...[继续阅读]

    This chapter presents the research methodology adopted in this study andthe research design of three specific studies. The research methodology includesboth theoretical framework and research methods. Section 3.1 introduces thetheoretical framework under ...[继续阅读]

    This introductory chapter first introduces the background and pinpointsthe necessity for undertaking this research in section 1.1; then articulates theresearch objectives and research questions in section 1.2, and points out theresearch significance in se...[继续阅读]

    To make up for the above-mentioned research limitations, future studieswill take the following measures.Firstly, future diachronic studies on events of separation state changewill attend to both conceptual variation and syntactic variation. The syntacticd...[继续阅读]

    To explore how boundaries of pò, qiē, and kāi change, we project theirvarying usages and their related variables onto MCA biplots. To reveal theconceptual relationship among these three verbs across four chronologicalstages, four MCA plots are drawn for d...[继续阅读]

    In sum, the conceptual boundaries between pò, qiē, and kāi have changedsignificantly from conceptual overlapping to conceptual discreteness. In thisprocess, the linguistic segmentation and categorization of events of separationstate change have been reorg...[继续阅读]

    Linguistic organization of concepts is acknowledged to be a fundamentaltask of language in cognitive linguistics (Langacker 1987; Croft and Cruse2004). As a linguistic category, verbs are conceived to organize the continuousflux of events or experiences (...[继续阅读]