[Lexicog] semantics

[Fritz Goerling]

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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