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The semantics of lexical typology

Year: 2015

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: This chapter focuses on lexical typology understood as cross-linguistic research on domain categorization. It first introduces some of the critical issues inherent in such research (section 2), and then turn to the presentation and discussion of four different approaches to lexical typology in sections 3–6: Componential analysis, Natural semantic metalanguage, Denotation-based or etic-grid semantics, Combinatorial lexical typology. Section 7 is devoted to semantic maps as representations of meanings and generalizations in lexical typology, while section 8 suggests a few future directions for lexical typology.

Source: HAL

DOI: 10.4324/9781315685533.ch25

Authors: Maria Koptjevskaja‐Tamm, Екатерина Рахилина, Martine Vanhove

Institutions: Stockholm University, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2211938735

FWCI: 7.387

Cites: 50

Cited by: 82

Related to: 10