Diasema Lectures : Ekaterina Rakhilina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), ‘Frame approach’ to cross-linguistic studies of lexicon

The talk gives a brief overview of lexical semantic projects of cross-linguistic research in different semantic domains conducted by the members of Moscow Lexical Typology group. Among them are aqua-motion field, domains of rotation, going down, quality words (as SHARP, HEAVY, FULL, OLD, etc.), pain terms and others. Each type of data will illustrate a new point of what is called “frame approach” and is used in MLexT as a basis for the contrastive study of lexicon.