%0 Journal Article
%A Haspelmath, Martin
%+ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Coexpression and synexpression patterns across languages: Comparative concepts and possible explanations  : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-D30B-9
%R 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1236853
%7 2023-10-24
%D 2023
%8 24.10.2023
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Meanings and linguistic shapes (or forms) do not always map onto each other in a unique way, and linguists have used all kinds of different terms for such situations: Ambiguity, polysemy, syncretism, lexicalization, semantic maps; portmanteau, cumulative exponence, feature bundling, underspecification, and so on. In the domain of lexical comparison, the term colexification has become generally established in recent years, and in the present paper, I extend this word-formation pattern in a regular way (cogrammification, coexpression; syllexification, syngrammification, synexpression). These novel terms allow us to chart the range of relevant phenomena in a systematic way across the grammar-lexicon continuum, and to ask whether highly general explanations of coexpression and synexpression patterns are possible. While there is no new proposal for explaining coexpression here, I will suggest that frequency of occurrence plays a crucial role in explaining synexpression patterns. Copyright © 2023 Haspelmath.
%K Colexification; Cumulative exponence; Lexical typology; Polysemy; Syncretism
%J Frontiers in Psychology
%O Front Psychol
%V 14
%] 1236853
%I Frontiers Research Foundation
%C Pully, Switzerland
%@ 1664-1078