Affiliation:
1. Department of Linguistics , Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden
Abstract
AbstractTraditionally, lexical typology has to a large extent been interested inlexical categorizationof various cognitive domains (e. g.,colour,perception,body), i. e., in how these are cut up by the most important words in a language, and inlexical motivation, or formal relatedness, i. e., in whether words for certain concepts are completely unrelated or related to others via polysemy or derivation (e. g., intransitive vs. transitive verbs, words for ‘day’ and ‘sun’, etc.).Grammatical behaviorof words andmorphosyntactic patternsas encoding meanings traditionally belong to grammatical typology. In this paper, I consider the domain oftemperatureand show how the close interaction between lexicon and grammar in the encoding of the temperature domain across languages calls for an integrated lexico-grammatical approach to these phenomena. As a useful tool for such an enterprise I suggest an elaborated semantic map comprising three layers – the layer specifying the words with the information on their mutual formal relations (i. e., whether they are identical, completely unrelated or related via derivation or inflection), their morphosyntactic properties (e. g., their part-of-speech affiliation, inflectional potential, etc.), and the constructions they occur in.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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