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The Linguist's Shoebox
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Specific (hyponym). A term that is semantically subsumed under the headword. Types of a kind. List all of the known specifics in the entry for the generic term. Check that these follow the emic groupings, rather than reflecting the lexicographer's ideas about how native taxonomies 'ought to be'. For more information about folk taxonomies, read section 8.1 in Making Dictionaries.
While not technically consistent with the principles of lexical functions, for convenience some compilers use Spec to give a phrasal example of nominal headwords rather than giving a fuller sentence example using the \xv field.
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lata
vt.
cut.
Spec:
bisi
'carve';
Spec:
hete
'cut into sections for use'.
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enhero
n.
spear.
Spec:
pangneet
'six-barbed spear';
pangat goit
'special spear for killing humans'.
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Lexical functions in alphabetical order
Related lexical functions:
Gen,
Sim
Similar lexical functions in other systems:
Spec,
Species,
Female,
Male,
Subadult,
Child
