The semantic domain of "carrying" is culturally salient in the Oceanic language, Longgu. Like many Austronesian languages, Longgu has about a dozen lexically specific verbs that refer to modes of ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

The study of the variation in body part vocabularies across diverse languages has attracted the attention of researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and psychology for many years. Similar to the ...

Semantics is studied for a number of different reasons but perhaps one of the main reasons could be: “If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication ...