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Document Details : Title: The Polysemous Relationships between the Senses of the Verbal Root חזק Author(s): VAN DER MERWE, Christo H.J. Journal: Biblica Volume: 99 Issue: 3 Date: 2018 Pages: 311-333 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.99.3.3285364 Abstract : Representing the senses of the verbal root חזק as a list or, as many existing lexicons do, in terms of root formations, does not do justice to the polysemy of this verbal root. Basic insights from cognitive semantics — many of which can be linked up with the 'common sense' wisdom of traditional historical-philological semantics — are used to argue that the extensions of the senses of חזק tend to cluster around three prototypes, two of which represent a mapping from concrete to abstract, and one the conventionalization of a formal pattern. Each of the three prototypes generates its own concrete to figurative mappings and conceptual blends. |
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