Approaching lexical typology

Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria

doi:10.1075/slcs.106.03kop

In:From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations
Edited by Martine Vanhove
[Studies in Language Companion Series 106] 2008
► pp. 3–52

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Approaching lexical typology

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm | University of Stockholm

Published online: 21 November 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.106.03kop

The paper aims at situating the research direction presented in the volume within the larger domain of typological research in general. It gives a short summary of what is meant by typological research, discusses the relation between semantic and lexical typology and the general premises for lexical-typological research. The bulk of the paper is devoted to the three main lexical-typological research foci – what meanings can(not) be expressed by a single word, what different meanings can be expressed by one and the same lexeme or by words derivationally related to each other, and what cross-linguistic patterns there are in lexicon-grammar interaction. The paper ends up with the general discussion of the urgent methodological problems facing lexical typology as a field.

Keywords: lexical typology, lexicon-grammar interaction, linguistic categorization, motivation, semantic typology

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