[Lexicog] an English idiom

[Kenneth C. Hill]

In his various observations about the metaphorical problems involved with
expressions involving "swallow", Rich Rhodes raises the question of where
such information might be put in a thorough description of the language. I
suggest it might be put at the dictionary entry for "swallow" itself. What
is interesting here is that in English, expressions (or "_expressions" --
I have no idea what the unbalanced underline might mean) with "swallow"
can have this sort of metaphoric extension while similar expressions with
words meaning 'swallow' in other languages seem to be unavailable. I
searched through the Hopi Dictionary corpus and found many instances of
'swallow' but none that could be regarded as metaphorical.

--Ken

--- Richard Rhodes <rrhodes at cogsci.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> As for someone whose office is directly across
> the hall from George Lakoff's, I'll say this is
> not just a figure of speech, but a metaphor in
> the usual literary (pre-Lakovian) sense.
> 	Of course, George would have an analysis
> for it with 'swallowed up in sorrow' being doubly
> metaphoric, ...

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