A brief report of some Jirel vocabulary

In an earlier era, when cognitive anthropology was narrowly focused on lexical semantics, one of its founding figures asked researchers to think of the enterprise not as getting words for things, rather as getting things for words, in other words, describing the basic referential ranges of lexemes. Towards this end, a field dictionary of several hundred words, including information about how native Jirels may organise them in their language was compiled during the course of fieldwork.