Buscando las brechas de significado: las lagunas léxicas entre el español y el polaco

Maciej Jaskot

Abstract

The aim of this research is to give an insight into some of the definitions of the notion of lexical gap – a phenomenon that has been widely studied by scholars devoted to Russian language, whose investigations resulted in the elaboration of different types of classification of words and expressions having no equivalent in other languages. These "empty lexemes" refer to a language's non-verbalized sememes, and therefore constitute an interesting object of study of how the languages reflect the culture of a community, thus proving how difficult it is to express them in other linguistic systems. The experience acquired in this particular matter by Russian researchers, and especially their manner of individuating and classifying the lexical gaps, can prove to be very useful in the comparative study of Polish and Spanish.