[Lingtyp] Universal constraints on lexicalisation

[David Gil]

Hi Masha,

Some examples from the semantic domain of quantification can be found here:

Gil, David (1992) "Scopal Quantifiers: Some Universals of Lexical
Effability", in M. Kefer and J. van der Auwera eds., *Meaning and Grammar,
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives*, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 303-345.

Best wishes,

David



On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am involved in a handbook chapter in which I would like to give a few
> examples of suggested universal constraints on lexicalisation, e.g., those
> primarily concerning meanings that should not be expressible in a word (a
> stem, root or whatever), preferably not from the domain of colour terms. To
> give an example, Rappaport Hovav and Levin (2010) argue that no verb
> encodes both manner and result simultaneously, which has been contested by
> Beavers and Koontz-Garbodens.
>
> Or,  a definition of a term covering both ‘father’ and ‘mother’s brother’
> would be cognitively very complex since it will require disjunction
> (‘father’ or ‘mother’s brother’, cf. ‘male relative of one’s patriline’ for
> ‘father’ and ‘father’s brother’) (Evans 2001) – I don’t know if this
> constraint still holds.
>
> Many thanks and all the best,
> Masha
>
> Prof. Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
> Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm university, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
> Editor-in-chief of “Linguistic Typology”
> President-Elect of Societas Linguistic Europaea
> www.ling.su.se/tamm
> tamm at ling.su.se
>
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