4. A Frame-based methodology for lexical typology

The semantic map model: State of the art and future avenues for linguistic research

“…Other studies that followed focused on polysemic patterns shared by diverse notions in different domains, such as quality expressions (Perrin, ; cf. Rakhilina, ; Ryzhova & Obiedkov, ), notions belonging to the motion domain (Wälchli & Cysouw, ) or to the domain of perception (Wälchli, ), the notion of emptiness (Rakhilina & Reznikova, , ), temperature terms (Koptjevskaja‐Tamm, , p. 17; Liljegren & Haider, , p. 469; Perrin, ), natural and spatial features (Georgakopoulos et al, ; Youn et al, ), and visual direction (Rakhilina, Vyrenkova, & Plungian, ).…”

“…703–705), the big bulk of research has been adopting a synchronic perspective, and the limited research that has added the diachronic dimension has focused almost exclusively on the grammatical domain (Eckhoff, ; Guardamagna, ; Lichtenberk, ; Luján, ; Luraghi, ; Narrog, ; van der Auwera & Plungian, ). For lexical typology, semantic maps have been conceptualized explicitly as “a strictly synchronous device,” a stance justified by the complexity of the historical relations between lexical meanings (Rakhilina & Reznikova, , p. 113; but see Viberg's, , modality hierarchy, which can be seen as a forerunner of lexical diachronic semantic maps). On the other hand, one can notice that the scope of constructional maps has been expanded in order to include the diachronic dimension (Fried, , ; Traugott, ).…”

“…One question that will necessarily arise is whether lexical semantic maps should follow the same principles as grammatical semantic maps. In this respect, Rakhilina and Reznikova (, pp. 101–102) highlight the fact that some of the restrictions of grammatical typology do not apply to lexical typology.…”

Conceptualization of the Sensory Experience: A Frame-Based Approach

“…Ideas of frame semantics were first put to the test in the systematic analysis of lexicons in English (Fontenelle, 1997;Heid, 1996), but similar projects were conducted later for Japanese (Ohara, 2015), German (Burchardt et al, 2009), Brazilian Portuguese (Salomão, Torrent, & Sampaio, 2013), Finnish (Lindén, Luukkonen, Laine, Roivainen, & Väisänen, 2017), Italian (Luraghi, 2015), and French (Candito et al, 2014). In Russia, this approach has been developed by the Lexical Typology group headed by E. Rakhilina, although frame semantics here has been given its own interpretation (Rakhilina, 2016).…”

“…We notice that some physical characteristics tend to fuse: For example, the sensation of loudness is connected to such dynamic properties of a sound event as smoothness and explosiveness. This is also reflected in the new environmental psychophysics, which treats a perceived quality as a fusion of individual sensory qualities (Nosulenko & Samoĭlenko, 2013, 2016.…”