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'Solid' in a Typological Perspective

Student: Pirogova Viktoriia

Supervisor: Tatiana Reznikova

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

This research is commited to lexico-typological study on semantic field of adjectives, which denote stability of objects to deformation, such as ‘solid’ and ‘sturdy’, on the material of 6 languages (Russian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, English, Italian and Ukranian). The frame-based approach was chosen as the main methodology for conducting the work. The prototypical situations (frames), which are covered by the adjectives of the considered field, became a basis for comparison of languages. As a result of the work, first, became semantic maps showing how these situations are distributed between lexemes in examined languages. Secondly, the similarities and differences between languages in the semantic zone were described. Thirdly, the parameters were determined, according to which the lexemes of these fields can be contrasted. They are such parameters as: the operating time and the intensity of the resistance.

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