Submorphemes: backtracking from English ‘kn- words’ to the emergence of the linguistic sign
I claim, within a semiogenetic theory of the conditions of emergence and evolution of the linguistic sign (STEELS), that the polysemy exhibited by Modern English ‘kn- words’ related to body-joints and their actions (knead, knee, knuckle, etc.) is a vestige of an unconscious, metonymically-based, sel...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/4244 |