john r. taylor
"The studies reported in this special issue exemplify two approaches to semantic typology and to the study of word meaning more generally...It is encouraging that these very different approaches partition the verbs of material seperation in roughly compatible ways...Attention is drawn to the fact that in general the cut and break verbs seem not to display much taxonomic depth, a finding which is in stark contrast to the often elaborate taxonomies exhibited by nominal concepts."
"MacLaury used the follwoing data elicitation procedures:
i. naming...
ii. focal reference...
iii.mapping...
These procedures deliver different kinds of data:
i. elicits the basic color terms of the langauge
ii. elicits the prototypical exemplar of each color term
iii. elicits the extensional range of each color term."
onomasiological: "(What do you call this?")
semasiological: ("What can this word refer to?")
'Appeal to mapping data also makes it possible to identify various kinds of semantic relation between words, such as taxonomic inclusion, synonymy, overlap (or partial synonymy), and contrast."
"The papers in this issue suggest that C&B verbs do not, in general, display any great degree of taxonomic depth, or indeed, in some cases, any kind of taxonomic structure at all."
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