Semantic evolution and lexicalization of Spanish somatism cerrar los ojos
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Keywords

invited inferencing theory of semantic change
lexicalization
somatism
kinegram
idiom
eye

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Pascual-López, X. (2023). Semantic evolution and lexicalization of Spanish somatism cerrar los ojos. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 50(3), 85–98. https://doi.org/10.14746/strop.2023.50.3.7

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility of applying the Invited Inferencing Theory of Se- mantic Change in order to establish the semantic evolution of idioms with literal correlates, in particular somatisms or kinegrams. The methodology is applied to analyze the testimonies (until 1700) of Spanish somatism cerrar los ojos in a diachronic corpus of Spanish language (CORDE), so as to find out what inferences generated contextual meanings that conditioned its lexicalization as idiom, semanticizing symbolic meanings related to death, sleep, knowledge, irrationality, submission or trust.

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