Many human languages have words for emotions such as “anger” and “fear,” yet it is not
clear whether these emotions have similar meanings across languages, or why their …

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

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics,
this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed …

Mainland Southeast Asia is well-known as one of the prime examples of a linguistic area or
Sprachbund, a geographical region containing a variety of languages of different families …

Many languages have words that denote a human body part and an object, for example,
hand, which refers to a part of a person and a watch. As of yet, there is no systematic study …

Мифология и фольклор Африки (точнее–ареальное распределение фольклорно-
мифологических мотивов) рассматриваются в качестве источника о дописьменной …

Chibchan has been labelled as “by all means one of the most intriguing language groups in
the Americas”(Adelaar 2007: 11), and for western researchers, this appears to be …

This paper investigates smell/kiss colexification, the lexical semantic association of transitive
verbs of smelling with verbs expressing certain types of conventionalised gestures of …

Pervasiveness of polysemy and the fact that lexical meanings are subject to semantic
change belong to linguists' basic knowledge about the lexicon as a complex dynamic …

In recent years, the lexicon has become increasingly popular as a subject for cross-linguistic
study. Although there is some debate around the exact meaning,'lexical typology'–as it has …