Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

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Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning - Zeki Hamawand

Zeki Hamawand [+-]
University of Kirkuk and University of Sulaimani
Zeki Hamawand is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Kirkuk and a senior lecturer at the University of Sulaimani, Iraq. He is the author of several books including Atemporal Complement Clauses in English: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis (Lincom 2002), Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis (Equinox 2007), Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation (Palgrave 2008), The semantics of English Negative Prefixes (Equinox 2009), and Morphology in English: Word Formation in Cognitive Grammar (Continuum 2011).

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Semantics: A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning is a comprehensive introduction to the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions in English: words and sentences. In conducting the analysis, it draws on two sources. First, it relies on the assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics, which describes language as being non-modular, symbolic, usage-based, meaningful and creative. Second, it hinges on the assumptions of Cognitive Semantics, which describes meaning as being embodied, motivated, dynamic, encyclopaedic and conceptualised. It explicates these assumptions clearly and applies them to diverse areas of language. Ultimately, it enables students to recognise the complexity of the English linguistic system, and trains them to solve the intricate puzzles characterising its nature.

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Hamawand, Zeki . Answer Key. Semantics - A Cognitive Account of Linguistic Meaning. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 213-247 Jan 2016. ISBN 9781781792490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=29008. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.29008. Jan 2016

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