Abstract
The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) To examine some of the notions current in the FLM (L. M. Mingorance¿s Functional Lexematic Model of semantic description) concerning lexical structure and knowledge, in the light of the cognitive paradigm; and (ii) to analyse some of the connections that can be established between the English lexico-conceptual domain of CHANGE verbs and other domains via the definitional structure of such lexical concepts as those of change verbs -as structured by the FLM-, in order to identify the underlying metaphorical concepts and processes involved.
Highlights
The meaning of lexical units is regarded by the FLM as the intersection of their paradigmatic and their syntagmatic axes, ie. of their sense and the set of collocationally restricted, syntactico-semantic combinations they may establish
A lexeme schema specifies the extent to which it is a prototypical instantiation of the category which the dimension schema defines. This information affects the ordering of all the lexemes belonging to the dimension. (ii) Dimension schemata are made up of those prototypical syntactic, semantic and pragmatic units obtained from the lexeme schemata
Otherwise we would be thinking about a lexical semantic investigation only “in terms of the study of part of the lexicon as such”, rather than “as a reflection of underlying conceptualizations”
Summary
(ii) Dimension schemata are made up of those prototypical syntactic, semantic and pragmatic units obtained from the lexeme schemata They are held to be dynamic patterns that establish links with other domains, serving as the paths along which domain-schemata establish their connections. To be both manifest in and evoked by lexical forms on the symbolic level, especially if they are felt to include idioms (see below) On this view, change verbs could be seen as a multidimensional set which inferentially coheres by virtue of the connectivity that characterizes every dimension level as indicated by the metaphorical mappings underlying the definitional structure of lexemes at the level of lexeme schemata.
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