[Lexicog] A prototypical blessing (was: Lexical polysemy and prototype semantics)

[Mali Translation]

>From Fritz Goerling to Dirk Geerarts:

Thank you very much for your article which you sent as an attachment to the
list instead of to me
personally. You said "Sorry" to the list but maybe some found it as an
enrichment to read it. I did.
By the way:  What is a prototypical "blessing" in the cultures and languages
represented on this list?
Here is my attempt: It is an enrichment or empowerment.

  Here it comes !

  At 15-4-2004 23:55, you wrote:

    Dear Dirk,

    I am certainly interested in your article. Unfortunately it is not one
of those
    articles from your impressive list of publications which can be
downloaded.
    Can you send me an electronic copy to my personal address?

    Fritz_Goerling at sil.org

    Best wishes,

    Fritz

      Dear Fritz,
      There's lots of work on prototype analyses of polysemous words in the
linguistic (rather than lexicographical or metalexicographical) literature.
If you're interested in an attempt to systematically chart the relevance of
prototype theory for lexicography (in a somewhat more theoretical mode than
Patrick's reply), you might have a look at my paper "The definitional
practice of dictionaries and the Cognitive Semantic conception of polysemy".
Lexicographica 17: 6-21, 2001.
      Best wishes,
      Dirk Geeraerts



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