The general aim of the project is to reveal and describe cross-linguistically recurrent semantic shifts and form/meaning correlations (e.g. patterns of polysemy, lexical connotations, lexical motivation in general) in the core vocabulary of human languages and to achieve a better understanding of the general mechanisms underlying these phenomena.

On these pages you can find information about the the project, successively learn more about the principal findings of our teams and find references to publications.

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