@inproceedings{39f14db5df09406481642ed4c66f399f,
title = "Image schemas and category coherence: the case of the Portuguese verb deixar",
abstract = "This paper offers a conceptual analysis of the many different senses of the Portuguese verb deixar 'to leave, to let'. Two clusters of meanings are identified, corresponding, roughly, to English 'to leave' and 'to let'. The analysis applies force-dynamic notions and is framed in terms of image schemas and their transformations. In the second half of the chapter, the diachronic development of the present-day complex is traced from the Latin etymon laxare 'to let go'. Finally, methodological conclusions are drawn on the proper treatment of polysemous and multifunctional lexical items.",
keywords = "Dehomonymization, Deprototypicalization, Force dynamics, Homonymy, Image schema, Image-schema transformation, Prototypicality",
author = "Silva, \{Augusto Soares da\}",
year = "2003",
month = may,
day = "20",
doi = "10.1515/9783110219074.281",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783110177091",
volume = "23",
series = " Cognitive Linguistics Research",
publisher = "De Gruyter Mouton",
pages = "281--322",
editor = "Hubert Cuyckens and Ren{\'e} Dirven and John Taylor",
booktitle = "Cognitive approaches to lexical semantics",
address = "Germany",
note = "Workshop on Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics held at the 16th Scandinavian Linguistics Conference ; Conference date: 15-09-1996 Through 15-09-1996",
}