Doing Lexical Typology With Frames And Semantic Maps

Ekaterina Rakhilina () and Tatiana Reznikova ()
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Ekaterina Rakhilina: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Tatiana Reznikova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: In this paper we present an approach to lexical typology which will be referred to as the “frame method”. It was developed and tested in the Moscow Lexico-Typological Group and is currently used in all its projects, such as Majsak, Rakhilina (eds.) 2007, Britsyn et al. (eds.) 2009, Kruglyakova 2010, Reznikova et al. 2012. Our main principle, taken from the Moscow semantic school (Apresjan 1974/1992, cf. also Firth 1957: 11), is that lexical meanings can be studied and reconstructed by observing the word’s “surroundings”, primarily their collocation. Then, they can be compared by procedures similar to those used in grammatical typology. Section One will clarify the goals of lexical typology (LT), as we see them in relation to our method, and the method itself will be presented in more detail in Section Two.

Keywords: lexical typology; semantics; frame-based approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2014, pages 1-13

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