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9. How would you criticize Langacker's 5 basic claims?

10. What is conceptualization according to Langacker?

11. By which criteria are lexical items characterized?

12. What is Jackendoff's attitude to semantical decomposition?

13. Why innateness of semantic primitives does not imply wider degree of universality in the lexical semantics of languages?

14. What is meant by graded boundaries?

15. What is meant by cluster concepts?

16: Define the following concepts: landmark, region, figure, profile, base, trajector, and give illustrating example(s). (Check the use of the term 'landmark' in Jackendoff and in Langacker.)

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