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Table 2: A part of the aqua-motion domain in Russian, Swedish, and Dutch.

Language

Agent-driven, active motion: type of figure

Passive location /motion

Motion of water

Animate entities

Sailing boats

Rowing boats

Canoes

Other vessels

Stationary or neutral motion

Motion out of control

Swedish

simma

segla

ro

paddla

(no specific acquamotion verbs)

flyta

driva

flyta, rinna

Dutch

zwemmen

zeilen

roeien

paddelen

drijven

stromen

varen

Russian

плыть / плавать

течь, литься

(плыть / плавать под парусами)

грести

нестись

As these examples show, languages differ considerably as to how many different lexemes they have for talking about comparable domains and how exactly these words partition the domains. It is, therefore, reasonable to ask whether there is any systematicity underlying the obvious cross-linguistic variation. Whatever the answer is, it requires explanation.

Only a handful of conceptual domains typically encoded by words (rather than by grammatical means) have been subject to systematic cross-linguistic research on their semantic categorization, primarily colour, body, kinship, perception, motion, events of breaking and cutting, dimension. The list can be made slightly longer, if we include words and expressions with more grammatical meanings, such as indefinite pronouns, various quantifiers, interrogatives, phrasal adverbials andspatial adpositions.
Questions for self-control:

1. What kind of relations does lexical typology have with other types of Comparative Typology?

2. What can lexical typology be dealt with?

3. How can you define the term “lexicon”?

4. What branches of lexical typology do you know?

5. The problem of interference in foreign language teaching acquisition (Lexical level).

Recommended Literatures:

1. Аракин В.Д. Сравнительная типология английского и русского языков. Ленинград, 1979.

2.Буранов Ж.Б. Сравнительная типологи яанглийского и тюркских языков. М, 1983.

3. РождественскийЮ.В. Типология слова. М, 1969.

4. ArnoldV.I. The EnglishWord. M, 1973.