Diasema Lectures : Ekaterina Rakhilina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Typology and lexicon: starting points

Lexical typology is a relatively new domain of linguistic research, since lexicon has always been treated as a periphery of the theoretically significant linguistic data. Therefore, this type of cross-linguistic studies requires special attention to the theoretical framework, methodological issues and general assumptions about the structure of the lexicon. My talk focuses on the main claims the existing approaches make about the analysis of lexical systems (some of which are not unproblematic). Special attention is being paid to Moscow Lexical Typology group tradition, which is based on the deep semantic description of each lexical domain.