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Lexical Gaps
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Restricted Collocation of Words
"the company that words keep"
Idioms
"a sequence of words which habitually co-occur and have a semantic cohesion due to use. Its meaning can be derived from the meanings of each word."
"a frozen expression who’s meaning cannot be built by the meanings of its component words and the component words cannot be substituted with synonyms."
what we say
what we feel
- Kick the bucket
- Spill the beans
- In a pickle
filling lexical gaps
- electric chair
- fish and chips
- pretty boy
- terrible twos
round one
dead spoon?
sour tomatoes?
how we think
filling lexical gaps
practice round
filling lexical gaps
Lexical Gaps
- the time it takes to eat a banana
Lexical Gaps
filling lexical gaps
round two
"Lexical gap occurs when a language expresses a concept with a lexical unit whereas the other language expresses the same concept with a free combination of words."
- the act of walking into a room and forgetting why you went in there
combination of words following only general rules of syntax : the elements are not bound to each other specifically, so they occur with other lexical items freely
- the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
Ambiguities and Idiosyncrasies
5%
- not every word-sense has a corresponding word-sense in another language
- not all senses of a word translate to one word in another language
Why?
great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. A dull ache of the soul. A longing without anything to long for. Mental throes. Yearning.
toska
...sad?
lexical unit -
a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon. Examples are cat, traffic light, take care of, by the way, and it's raining cats and dogs
translation equivalent
- the act of thinking of a funny comeback when it is too late to deliver it