To English speakers, the distinctions between blue and green, cup and glass, or cut and
break seem self‐evident. The intuition is that these words label categories that have an …

The article summarizes the goals and the current state of the Catalogue of sematic shifts
(CSSh), its primary notions being those of a semantic shift, which is understood as a relation …

How universal is human conceptual structure? The way concepts are organized in the
human brain may reflect distinct features of cultural, historical, and environmental …

Our languages are in constant flux driven by external factors such as cultural, societal and
technological changes, as well as by only partially understood internal motivations. Words …

Abstract The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (CLICS), has established a
computer-assisted framework for the interactive representation of cross-linguistic …

The discussion will be organized by following the functional layers of an NP, a structure that I
have dubbed the “nominal onion” elsewhere (Löbner 2013: 90). The functional structure is …

The article deals with the methodology and techniques of lexical typological studies. It
focuses on the cross-linguistic analysis of semantic areas that are deeply involved in …

The lexical typology of semantic shifts Päivi Juvonen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Eds.)
The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts Page 2 Cognitive Linguistics Research Editors Dirk …

Our study contributes to the less explored domain of lexical typology, focusing on semantic
prosody and connotation. Semantic derogation, or pejoration of nouns referring to women …

Verb learning is an important part of linguistic acquisition. The present study examines the
early phases of verb acquisition in Hebrew, a language with complex derivational and …