What meanings are in PanLex?
PanLex is designed to include whatever meanings the user community wants included. It is not obvious which meanings a worldwide community of users will choose to adopt. For example, some languages have words that express more colors than others, and some languages have words that express finer distinctions among kinship concepts than others. PanLex permits users, with the choices they make, to “negotiate” about this. Whether and how they reach agreements on meanings are research questions that PanLex may help answer. Because meanings enter PanLex only by being assigned to expressions, it is more likely that you will find substantive (or semantic) meanings in PanLex than grammatical meanings. Substantive meanings are usually represented in English by nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and prepositions. For example, in “The dog ate”, “dog” and “eat” represent substantive meanings, while “the” and the past-tense form of “eat” represent grammatical meanings. Some grammatical meanings are r
