Two senses of “lexicon”: The inventorium and the lexemicon

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6 septembre 2022

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Martin Haspelmath, « Two senses of “lexicon”: The inventorium and the lexemicon », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10670/1.hvb09c


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This blogpost proposes two new terms for what Mark Aronoff  (1988) called “idiosyncratic-lexical” items and “categorial-lexical” items: the inventorium is the set of all morphs, constructions and phrasemes of a language (i.e. all idiosyncratic meaningful elements), and the lexemicon is the set of all lexemes of a language, i.e. the members of the major lexical categories noun, verb and adjective. I think that by using these two terms (and one further term, as discussed below), we can avoid co...

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