Approche onomasiologique des concepts ARBRE et FRUIT dans des langues européennes
A cognitive-onomasiological approach to the concepts TREE and FRUIT in European languages

Summary/Abstract: By applying the cognitive-onomasiological approach of Peter Koch (1999), we analyze the relation between the names of trees and their fruit in Balkan languages (Greek, Albanian, Bulgarian and Romanian) and in some non-Balkan languages (Slavic languages: Polish and Russian and Romance languages: Italian). On the basis of the results from the analysis, the following three areas of correlations can be established: fruit-bearing tree – fruit, which are characterized with, respectively: morphological relations between the names (change of grammatical gender in Romanian and Italian and partially in Ancient Greek); structural changes (suffixation in most Romance languages and in modern Greek: composition in Germanic languages); identical name for the tree and its fruit (in Slavic languages and in Albanian) or an area of the Slavic type.

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