[Lexicog] semantics

[Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin]

Fritz,
 
The first thing that came to my mind is the famous Greek proverb: Ho khronos farmakon estin (The time is the best medicine)
Or Russian Tsypliat po oseni schitaiut (It is worth to count chikens at fall), there is no word ‘time’ here, but the concept of a period from spring to fall and a concept of a competion..  
 
 
Best wishes,
Hayim Sheynin
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Fritz Goerling [mailto:Fritz_Goerling at sil.org] 
Sent: ו 17 דצמבר 2004 07:09
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Lexicog] semantics
 
I  would be interested in collocations, expressions, idioms and proverbs with "time" 
in languages other than English.
The contributions can be about chronological time or other concepts of time.
 
Examples from English:
 
to waste, save, gain, lose time; time is money; time will tell; time is on one's side;
to run out of time
 
German: "die Zeit heilt alle Wunden" (time heals all wounds)
Bible: "There is a time for everything" (Ecclesiastes) 
 
Fritz Goerling
 
              
	There was a posting yesterday in the Corpora-List which referred to a 
	term that I had not run across before, 'semantic prosody'.  The notion 
	is that some words collocate not just with particular other words ('arm' 
	and 'akimbo'), but with semantic classes of words ('career' tends to 
	collate with words that have a positive sense, whereas 'job' exhibits no 
	such tendency).
	
	I suspect this is a largely unexplored area of lexicography, although I 
	could just be ignorant.  At any rate, one of the msgs in that list gave 
	a link to a recent on-line thesis by Mike Nelson (Sea Hunt, anyone?) 
	which studied business English.  Not one of my favorite subjects, but 
	chapter 4 of the thesis surveys a number of concepts that may be of 
	interest to this list, including semantic prosody, collocation, 
	colligation (another new term to me), and multi-word items.
	
	The URL is http://www.kielikanava.com/thesis.html.
	-- 
	      Mike Maxwell
	      Linguistic Data Consortium
	      maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
	
	
	
	
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