A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be
described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors …

Our aim in this paper is to contribute toward acknowledging the general role of opposites as
an organizing principle in the human mind. We support this claim in relation to human …

The goal of this paper is to combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain
insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation and the degree of …

We report on longitudinal changes in the system of intensification in an innovative corpus
that spans five decades of dialectal speech. Our analyses allow us—for the first time in a …

This article offers a Cognitive Semantic approach to antonymy in language and thought.
Based on a series of recent empirical investigations using different observational …

Despite a sizable functional literature on variation and change, very little attention has been
given to the diachronic mechanisms of meaning shifts and change covering the whole …

I aim to uncover revealing aspects of the conceptual structure of four English moderators
(rather, quite, fairly, and pretty) and shed new light on previous studies on degree modifiers …

When we think about paradoxes, it is important to think about how we think about
paradoxes. As previous scholars have pointed out, whether an individual is aware of a …

Intensification is prone to invention and renewal, rendering it ideal for delving into
mechanisms of variation and change. Recycling (via lexical replacement) is a putative …

This article aims to study the extension and immediacy of the perception of intermediates
during the observation of images showing a variation in a spatial property from one extreme …