In this article the author attempts to pick out and describe the semantics of temporal metalexemes» i.e. nouns of very high generalization ability considering language temporality. Author gives a list of features characterizing metalexemes and demonstrates that semantics of the Norwegian word tid ‘time’ meets all the characteristics of a metalexeme, as well as 5 other Norwegian words: begynnelse ‘beginning, shutt ‘end’, alder ‘age’, gang ‘time’ (iterative), stund ‘period’. Being very close to semantic primitives, temporal metalexemes can also appear as time-related semantic components.
Vorobyeva Evgenia. TEMPORAL METALEXEMES IN NORWEGIAN AND TIME-RELATED SEMATIC COMPONENTS