Päivi Koivisto-Alanko

PhD, Researcher
paivi.koivisto-alanko@helsinki.fi

Research Interests

cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics

Publications

(2002) 'Prototypes in semantic change: a diachronic perspective on abstract nouns.' In Javier Díaz Vera (ed.) A Changing World of Words: Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 300-331.

(2002) with Matti Rissanen ‘We give you to wit: Semantics and grammaticalisation of the verb wit in the history of English.’ In Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Matti Rissanen (eds.) Variation Past and Present. VARIENG Studies on English for Terttu Nevalainen. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 61). Helsinki: Société Néophilologique. 13–32.

(2000)'Mechanisms in semantic change in nouns of cognition: a general model?' In Julie Coleman and Christian J. Kay (eds.) Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected Papers from the Fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 35-52.

(2000) Abstract Words in Abstract Worlds: Directionality and Prototypical Structure in the Semantic Change in English Nouns of Cognition. (Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki 58). Helsinki: Société Néophilologique.

(2000) Review of Dirk Geeraerts, Diachronic Prototype Semantics. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1(2): 323-6.

(2000) 'Patterns of semantic change in abstract nouns: The case of WIT.' In Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen (eds.) Placing Middle English in Context. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 317-33.

(1999) 'Cognitive loanwords in Chaucer: is suprastandard nonstandard?' In Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi pahta (eds.) Writing in Nonstandard English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 205-223.

(1997) 'The vocabulary of cognition in early English translations of Boethius from Chaucer to Preston.' Neuphilologishce Mitteilungen 4: 397-414.