Semantic Peculiarities of Occurrence of Eating Verbs of Secondary Indirect Nomination Cover Image

Antrinės netiesioginės nominacijos valgymo veiksmažodžių semantiniai atsiradimo ypatumai
Semantic Peculiarities of Occurrence of Eating Verbs of Secondary Indirect Nomination

Author(s): Anželika Gaidienė
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics, Baltic Languages
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: synonym; concept; secondary indirect nomination; metaphorical transfer of meaning; semantic feature; synonyms network;

Summary/Abstract: The object of this article is eating verbs of secondary indirect nomination of standard Lithuanian language taken from “Standard Lithuanian Language Dictionary” which is currently in the process of compilation. This research seeks to estimate which features of the actual phenomena, things or actions become semantic features in the language and determine the rise of the new eating verbs of secondary indirect nomination as well as to compare them with the corresponding drinking verbs. The article ends with a preliminary synonym network of eating verbs of secondary indirect nomination.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 230-251
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Lithuanian