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Items for "lexical semantics"

Towards a lexical profile of the Swedish verb lexicon

This paper will provide a typological-contrastive sketch of the lexical semantic structure of the verb lexicon in Swedish based on data from translation corpora and the information on lexical typology currently available in published works...

Keywords: linguistic typology, contrastive linguistics, lexical semantics, verbs, translation corpora

01/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag
Metaphor and convention

This article argues that lexical metaphors should be seen as graded: they differ in their conventionalized ability to activate concepts from the source domain...

Keywords: lexical metaphor, conceptual metaphor, conventionality, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics, collocation, metaphorical strength

03/2007 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter
Cognitive schemas and motion verbs: COMING and GOING in Chindali (Eastern Bantu)

This study develops a detailed semantic analysis of a dozen COME and GO verbs in an eastern Bantu language, Chindali...

Keywords: Bantu, Chindali, deixis, lexical semantics, motion verb, verb chaining in discourse

02/2005 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter