Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction: The frame-based approach to the typology of qualities1
Chapter 2.Methodology at work: Semantic fields sharp and blunt29
Chapter 3.A matter of degree? The domain of wetness in a typological perspective57
Chapter 4.Quality as a two-place predicate: The typology of full and empty79
Chapter 5.Typology of dimensions117
Chapter 6.The domain of surface texture161
Chapter 7.A new approach to old studies189
Chapter 8.Talking temperature with close relatives: Semantic systems across Slavic languages215
Chapter 9.Lexical typology of Mandarin Chinese qualitative features269
Chapter 10.The qualitative lexicon in Russian Sign Language from a typological perspective289
Chapter 11.Constructing a typological questionnaire with distributional semantic models309
Language index329
Subject index333
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