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Dynamics of lexical semantic systems: talking temperature with close relatives| title | Dynamics of lexical semantic systems: talking temperature with close relatives |
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| start_date | 2022/10/14 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle de conférence |
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| details | Séance 3 |
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| summary | There is a long tradition of research on lexical/semantic change, etymological sources and lexical replacement, recently extended to cross-linguistic comparison and boosted by the use of statistical modelling (cf. Koch 2016, Tadmor et al. 2010, Pagel et al. 2007). These studies normally focus on individual words, whereas closely related languages often show significant typological differences in categorization of whole cognitive domains (cf. Majid & Dunn 2015). However, there is relatively little connection between the research on change in individual words and the one focusing on the intra-genetic comparison of whole systems (cf. Vejdemo et al. 2015 and Koptjevskaja-Tamm et al. 2010 for combining both perspectives). This seminar will be devoted to a careful examination of the semantic systems used to categorize the domain of temperature in several groups of closely related languages (partly following Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2022a). The comparison targets both the systems as a whole and the forms involved in them, and the overarching issue here is intra-genetic constancy vs. variation, or stability vs. change. An additional challenge for such a comparison stems from the close interaction between lexicon and grammar in the encoding of the temperature domain across languages. As a useful tool for tackling this I will introduce an elaborated three-layered semantic map (following Koptjevskaja-Tamm 2022b). |
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| responsibles | Isel |
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