Verbs of Dividing and Sharing: Towards a Typology

Student: Anastasiya Andreeva

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This paper presents a lexico-typological study of verbs that describe situations of dividing and sharing, such as ‘divide the dough into four parts’, ‘divide the students into groups’, ‘share a room with two neighbours’, ‘share sandwiches with a friend’, etc. The study follows the frame-based approach to lexical typology and is based on data from seven languages: Russian, English, Dutch, Italian, Kazakh, Tatar, and Abaza. The main results of the study include the following: a list of microframes that constitute the semantiс field of dividing and sharing, a set of parameters that are most relevant for lexical choice, a classification of verb systems, and a pilot version of the semantic map. In addition to that, the paper contains a detailed discussion of semantic shifts that occur in verbs of dividing and sharing, and examines the lexical contiguity found for the domain.

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