The concept of ‘taste’ in formation of Croatian and Turkish lexicon: A contrastive analysis

Abstract

The paper explores the importance of the concept of 'taste' in the formation of the Croatian and the Turkish lexicon. The main goals of the paper are 1) to investigate differences and similarities in conceptual mappings based on the concept of 'taste' in two typologically different and genetically unrelated languages by analyzing the vocabulary based on the root kus in Croatian and the vocabulary based on the root tat in Turkish and 2) to see to what extent the formation of taste vocabulary differs with respect to lexicalization patterns in the two languages.

The concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon: The example of tactile verbs

“…Therefore, it is possible to recognize conceptual and semantic extensions captured by the same or different lexicalization patterns -which is not the case in Talmy's model. Moreover, the model of lexicalization patterns (as developed by Raffaelli & Kerovec, 2017) shares an important feature with Talmy's model: the notion of typological relevance. Some lexicalization patterns can be language specific, and some can be regular and frequent among languages, mostly within a specific language family.…”

“…Conceptual metaphors involve understanding experiences from one conceptual domain in terms of experiences from another domain. Since our earliest and primary experience of the world is 1 A very detailed analysis of lexicalization patterns related to the vocabulary of 'taste' in Croatian and Turkish is presented in the work of Raffaelli and Kerovec (2017). The analysis of the touch vocabulary is closely related to the previous one according to the theoretical framework and the methodology used.…”

The Dialects of Panslavic, Serbocroatian, and Croatian: Linguistic Taxonomies in Zagreb, 1836–1997

“…In 1991, forces of the Serbian Krajina Republic seized Zadar airport and destroyed the bridge at Maslenica, cutting Dalmatia off from the rest of Croatia. Kačić briefly experienced life in besieged Zadar before moving to Zagreb to work for the Ministry of Education in 1992 (Šimunović 2002;Raffaelli 2001). A 1993 offensive recaptured Zadar airport and restored a land route to Zagreb, but the Croatian state did not fully secure Zadar's hinterland until 1995, the year Kačić published Zablude i krivotvorine.…”

Grammatical underpinnings of lexicalization patterns in Croatian, English and French: The case of [N PP] constructions

“…The term lexicalization pattern is used mostly in connection to Talmy's work on the typology of lexicalization patterns of motion and location verbs (1985). The concept has been further expanded in Raffaelli and Kerovec (2017) to include word-formation patterns and other syntactic processes that are used in lexicalization of particular domains. Therefore, in the broad sense we consider as lexicalization patterns any arrangement of formal morphosyntactic elements with a specific meaning or function which can be observed contrastively.…”