[Lexicog] Lacunae

Benjamin Barrett bjb5 at U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Mon Apr 26 06:42:37 UTC 2004


What do you mean that "gullible" isn't in English dictionaries (it is in
most of my English dictionaries)? And do you have a suggestion for
rectifying that problem?

Benjamin Barrett

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal_Brinneman at sil.org [mailto:Neal_Brinneman at sil.org]


>In your research, what (apparent) lexical lacunae have you encountered,
>where there is lack of lexicalization for concepts which seem to be part
of
>the culture of the language speakers?

The word gullible is not in  English dictionaries.

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