[Lexicog] Lacunae

[Wayne Leman]

Peter, sleep helped: I understand now what you were asking here about
"member." I personally have no problem including binomial expressions such
as "body part" in a dictionary. Does English have a lacuna for that concept?
Hmm, good question. English has a lacuna for a monomial expression here, but
the binomial expression fills the hole acceptably and I don't think English
speakers feel a need for any other term.

BTW, Cheyenne has no commonly used word for 'body,' or 'body part.' And the
word body' is not metaphorically extended to mean 'group of people.'

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language

> Well, when does a metaphorical expression become a lexical entry? Would
> one say that English has a lacuna for the concept usually expressed by
> the word "member", because it has had to use metaphorically a word which
> originally meant "body part"? I ask because in Azerbaijani many abstract
> concepts are expressed in this kind of way, but the metaphors have
> become frozen and perhaps lexicalised expressions.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk



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