Fw: [Lexicog] Fuzziness (was: semantic domains AND frames?)

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From: "Translation MALI" <translation_mali at sil.org>
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Subject: RE: [Lexicog] Fuzziness (was: semantic domains AND frames?)


> David,
>
> I would argue that semantic domains are arbitrarily defined by linguists.
As
> their borders are fuzzy and there is overlap with
> other fuzzy sets, maybe keying lexical items to frames - as well - might
> provide more precision. Such a domain/frame
> dictionary would be quite an ambitious endeavour? Do you know of any such
> attempts?
>
> Fritz Goerling
>
>   David Gray wrote:
>
>   I was reading an article recently that suggested that all lexical
entries
> should be keyed to semantic domains so that the entries can be sorted by
> them. What about keying them to frames as well, as defined by cognitive
> linguistics? This would make just as much sense to me, as semantic domains
> are (arguably) defined arbritrarily by linguists, whereas frames are more
> directly related to real life...
>
>   sozlukyazajy
>
>
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