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Semplates: a new concept in lexical semantics?

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Summary, in English

This short report draws attention to an interesting kind of configuration in the lexicon that seems to have escaped theoretical or systematic descriptive attention. These configurations, which we dub SEMPLATES, consist of an abstract structure or template, which is recurrently instantiated in a number of lexical sets, typically of different form classes. A number of examples from different language families are adduced, and generalizations made about the nature of semplates, which are contrasted to other, perhaps similar, phenomena.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

153-174

Publication/Series

Language

Volume

85

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Linguistic Society of America

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • semplate
  • lexical semantics
  • space
  • landscape lexicon
  • metaphor
  • analogy
  • cultural models
  • sense relations
  • toponyms

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0097-8507