Evans N. Semantic typology

Глава из книги.In: The Oxford Handbook of Typology, J.J. Sung (Ed.), Oxford: OUP; pp. 504-533.The three-part sign.
Lexical, grammatical, and prosodic signs.
The problem of cross-linguistic comparison of meaning.
Typologies of the signified.
Denotational range of individual signs.
Features and primitives.
Systematic relationships between meanings.
Semantic fields and implicational relationships:
the case of colour terms.
Taxonomies and ethnobiology.
Factoring in the rest of the sign.
Iconicity.
Polysemy and heterosemy.
The semantics of covert categories.
Compositional semantics.