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Transformations on the Path‐schema and a minimal lexicon
Author(s) -
Ekberg Lena
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9582.00082
Subject(s) - lexeme , polysemy , lexicon , schema (genetic algorithms) , linguistics , path (computing) , meaning (existential) , generative grammar , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , machine learning , programming language
The question approached in this paper concerns which meaning variants are expected given a lexeme whose meaning is grounded in the conception of a Path (such as over or up ). Underlying this study of polysemy of Path‐lexemes is the assumption of a generative mechanism in the lexicon.