Fw: [Lexicog] semantic domains AND frames?

[Wayne Leman]

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From: "Wayne Leman" <wayne_leman at sil.org>
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Subject: [Lexicog] semantic domains AND frames?


> Fritz, a followup note:
>
> I find the yes/no questioning techniques of researching folk taxonomies
> helpful. I also believe there are other questioning techniques for content
> which are helpful (e.g. Cheyenne Etonetoestomo'he? 'What kind of
personality
> does he/she have?' gives lots of lexical items which would be included in
a
> Cheyenne category of personality; there are a number of similar
> content-question verbs which lead us to other indigenous Cheyenne semantic
> domains). Just to make it clear, since I have worked with folk taxonomies,
I
> do not believe that all semantics is (are?) categorical. I think there is
> much
> more to semantics than binary and categorical distinctions. There are
fuzzy
> boundaries, greater or lesser distance from a semantic prototype, etc.
>
> Wayne
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> Wayne Leman
> Busby, Montana, U.S.A.
> Cheyenne dictionary project:
> http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language/cddicy.htm
>
>
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