Lexical Typology
- a course for the Summer School in Typology in Leipzig
The course Lexical Typology was held in Leipzig in 2010
Material
This is a pdf of the handout for the...
Results of assignments
See some data gathered by the participants on the typology of HAIR here. Please add info on your language!
Here's the cool data gathered by the participants on the typology of LOCATION AND EXISTENCE: here! Please add info on your language!
Directory of participants
There is a list of participants, their linguistic interests and contact information here
Downloadable References
A book chapter entitled "Lexical Typology" by Nicholas Evans. Download it here
Bruno Gaume, Karine Duvignau, Martine Vanhove. Semantic associations and confluences in paradigmatic networks. Dans : Typologie des rapprochements sémantiques. Martine Vanhove (Eds.), John Benjamins Publishing Company, (en ligne), 2007. Download it here
Family, Neiloufar. 2008. Mapping semantic spaces: A constructionist account of the "light verb" eat in Persian. In From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations, Martine Vanhove (ed.), pp. 139-162. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. Download it here
François, Alexandre. 2008. Semantic maps and the typology of colexification: Intertwining polysemous networks across languages. From polysemy to semantic change: towards a typology of lexical semantic associations, ed. by Martine Vanhove, 163-215. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Download it here
Goddard, Cliff. (submitted). Semantic primes, semantic molecules, semantic templates: Key concepts in the NSM approach to lexical typology. Linguistics, Special issue on “Lexical Typology”, edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm & Martine Vanhove. Download it here
Koch, Peter. 2001. Lexical typology. Language Typology and Language Universals. An International Handbook. Vol. 2. Pp. 1142-1173. Download it here
Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria. 2008. Approaching lexical typology. In From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations, Martine Vanhove (ed.), pp. 3-52. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. Download it here
Masson, Michel. 2008. Cats and Bugs. Some remarks about semantic parallelisms. In From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations, Martine Vanhove (ed.), pp. 371-386. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins. Download it here
Links
Professor Tamm's Temperature in Language and Cognition project here