@inproceedings{c2bc7d9ded54465f8c6fe3187ead799a,
title = "Semantic profile as a source of polysemy: Insight from the spatial-configuration verb f{\`a}ng in mandarin",
abstract = "This study provides a linguistic insight to the issue of polysemy. It shows that semantic profile, an important cognitive mechanism, may be the source of verbal polysemy. With a close examination of corpus distribution of the high-frequency verb [f{\`a}ng], we find that the diverse range of semantically and constructionally distinct uses of f{\`a}ng can be viewed as profiling different stages of a motion-initiated event chain. We therefore propose that a multifaceted verb such as f{\`a}ng may involve a cognitively salient sequence of events as its conceptual basis and the various senses of the verb may highlight various portions of the lexical base as a result of semantic profile.",
keywords = "Lexical semantics, Mandarin fang, Polysemy, Semantic profile",
author = "Mei-Chun Liu and Jui-Ching Chang",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_3",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319271934",
volume = "9332",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "24--32",
editor = "Qin Lu and Gao, {Helena Hong}",
booktitle = "Chinese Lexical Semantics",
address = "Germany",
note = "16th Workshop on Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2015 ; Conference date: 09-05-2015 Through 11-05-2015",
}