[Lexicog] semantic extension

[Claire Bowern]

>From Bardi:

baarl (paperbark) > paper,
baarliidi (paperbark-'expert') > bank manager

In several Australian languages, the word for coolamon
(bark container) > vehicle (e.g. Warumungu, in Bardi
oolarda 'coolamon' is the name of a boat).

Claire

 --- Wayne Leman <wayne_leman at sil.org> wrote:
---------------------------------
Yesterday I learned that the Cheyenne word for purse
has been semantically
extended to mean 'budget.' Interesting!

What examples of semantic extension have you come
across in your lexical
research?


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


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