Honour's Thesis

This Honours Thesis, a six-credit undergraduate research course at the University of Lethbridge, allows qualified students to complete an independent project in their declared major and receive the ‘Honours Thesis’ designation on their transcript and degree parchment. My thesis investigates polysemy in Tok Pisin vocabulary related to war and violence. Using cognitive semantic analysis, adapted etymological tracing, and corpus linguistics, the project examines how words related to the semantic domain of war and violence have expended their meanings to make polysemy networks. I examine the types of semantic extensions and use usage patterns from corpus data and etymological evidence to give more insight into the polysemic meanings. The study contribute to research on Cognitive Linguistics for contact languages.

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