Lexical typology deals with the units of lexical levels. It studies inter-
lingual paradigms of words, inter-lingual invariance of meanings expressed by
words and phrases. Some linguists combine lexical and semantic typologies.
Lexical typology must be studied as an independent branch of linguistic typology,
because it deals with lexical units, while semantic typology concerns to every level
of language hierarchy. The terms “semantic typology” and “lexical typology” are
often used as if there were self-explanatory, but are only rarely explicitly defined.
Semantic typology is “the systematic cross-linguistic study of how languages
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