Lexical Matters

Author : Anna Szabolcsi,Ivan Sag
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-06
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0937073660

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Lexical Matters by Anna Szabolcsi,Ivan Sag Pdf

This volume contains new research on the lexicon and its relation to other aspects of linguistics. These essays put forth empirical arguments to claim that specific theoretical assumptions concerning the lexicon play a crucial role in resolving problems pertaining to other components of grammar. Topics include: syntactic/semantic interface in the areas of aspect, argument structure, and thematic roles; lexicon-based accounts of quirky case, anaphora, and control; the boundary between the lexicon and syntax in the domains of sentence comprehension and nominal compounding; and the possibility of extending the concept of blocking beyond the traditional lexicon. Ivan Sag is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Anna Szabolcsi is an associate professor of linglustics at UCLA.

Author : Katalin Doró,Päivi Pietilä,Renata Pípalová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443881647

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Lexical Issues in L2 Writing by Katalin Doró,Päivi Pietilä,Renata Pípalová Pdf

Research into lexical issues has been one of the most rapidly growing areas of second language acquisition studies in recent years, and understandably so: the importance of vocabulary can hardly be denied. Words are the key to every instance of communication, both spoken and written. This volume concentrates on vocabulary in written language, mostly in academic settings. The writers of the chapters come from different countries and universities, and, naturally, represent their own academic backgrounds, though they all share a common interest in investigating the characteristics of L2 lexis as it manifests itself in the written production of students at various stages of their language learning careers. The target language (L2) in the studies reported in the volume is English, except in one study on the lexical competence of multilingual learners of French. The subjects’ native languages include Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, and Swedish, thus representing several different language families. Each chapter constitutes an independent unit, but together the studies reported in them give the reader a varied and extensive picture of lexical issues in L2 writing. The authors approach their topics from different perspectives and use diverse research methods, adding to the multifaceted nature of the volume. The book will be of interest to researchers, educators and students of second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

Author : Anna Szabolcsi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:947127370

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Lexical Matters by Anna Szabolcsi Pdf

Author : Ronaldo Martins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781443852814

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Lexical Issues of UNL by Ronaldo Martins Pdf

This book inaugurates a series of discussions on what is permanent in the original thinking of the UNL – Universal Networking Language – and the changes that have been introduced during its development. The purpose of the book is to highlight the UNL’s fundamental principles that remain as integral as they were when they were first formulated several years ago, while showing how their materialization has evolved over time, following the advances in Linguistics, Knowledge Engineering and Information Sciences. The fundamental and unchanged principles of the UNL are: The idea of an artificial language that is able to describe the universe similar to any human language; The idea of a language that, though artificial, is made up of lexical, grammatical and semantic components in the same way as any natural language; The idea of a language that can represent information and knowledge independently of natural languages; The idea that it is a language for machines, and enables human-machine interaction in an intelligent partnership. For more than a decade, eminent linguists, IT developers, NLP scholars worked together on the materialization of the “idea” of the UNL. At the start, they adopted set specifications on the formalism of the UNL that were followed by all of them. As their work progressed, they gradually realized the need for adjusting some of the initial specifications and for introducing new ones. These specifications concern three basic components of the UNL linguistic structure: the “Universal Words” (UWs) which constitute the vocabulary of the UNL; the “Relations” that describe semantic functions between two UWs; and “Attributes” that describe circumstances under which UWs and “Attributes” are used.

Author : Weronika Szubko-Sitarek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642321948

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Multilingual Lexical Recognition in the Mental Lexicon of Third Language Users by Weronika Szubko-Sitarek Pdf

The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate that trilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right as opposed to L2 learners with a view to enumerating consequences this would bring to third or additional language teaching. Its theoretical part offers an insight into the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon which is a product of the interplay of a whole array of cross-linguistic factors in the minds of multilingual speakers. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to investigate connections which are formed between multiple languages in a multilingual mind. All the aspects, analyzed in the experiments are part of a broader question of how multilinguals make their lexical decisions and, more specifically, how they recognize words from different languages. The book closes with the discussion of the role of the obtained results for multilingual didactics as well as some possible areas for future research.

Author : Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger,Paul Portner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110623130

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Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives by Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger,Paul Portner Pdf

Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.

Author : María Pilar Agustín Llach
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694164

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Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing by María Pilar Agustín Llach Pdf

This book explores how lexical competence develops in a foreign language, and also argues for the importance of lexical accuracy as a measure of the quality of foreign language writing and as an indicator of receptive vocabulary knowledge.

Author : Irene Checa-García,Laura Marqués-Pascual
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110730418

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Current Perspectives in Spanish Lexical Development by Irene Checa-García,Laura Marqués-Pascual Pdf

New quantitative methodology and the development of corpus and experimental linguistics tools have recently made researching lexical comprehension and production more accessible. While several tools and data sets are available in English (Coh-metrix, CELEX) and a few other languages, the development of resources and empirical research is still lacking in Spanish. This volume brings together original empirical research and theoretical perspectives that examine lexical development in Spanish L1, L2 and L3, with a focus on different teaching approaches and textbook coverage of Spanish lexicon in L2 curricula and the use of corpus linguistics in methodological investigations. Some questions addressed include the role of lexical development in mapping grammatical acquisition phases, the potential transfers of L1 to L2 lexical abilities, the effect of explicit vocabulary learning techniques in L2, how affective meaning modulates L2 acquisition, or how a typological understanding of lexical organization can help in teaching more effectively the lexicon of a language, among many others. The book offers an overview of what is currently being done in the field of Spanish lexical acquisition through a myriad of approaches and topics.

Author : Meichun Liu,Chunyu Kit,Qi Su
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030811976

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Meichun Liu,Chunyu Kit,Qi Su Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 21st Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2020, held in Hong Kong, China in May 2020.Due to COVID-19, the conference was held virtually. The 76 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 233 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical semantics and general linguistics, AI, Big Data, and NLP, Cognitive Science and experimental studies.

Author : Dirk Geeraerts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198700302

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Theories of Lexical Semantics by Dirk Geeraerts Pdf

This text provides an introduction to the history and current state of theories of word meanings.

Author : Rajendra Singh
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236289

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Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics by Rajendra Singh Pdf

This collection of twelve essays, some of which have been written specifically for this volume by well-known European and North-American sociolinguists, reflects an increasing recognition within the field that sociological and theoretical innocence can no longer be underwritten by it, and offers a multi-pronged and multi-methodological way to move towards a critical, reflexive, and theoretically responsible socio-linguistics. It explores, with courage and sensitivity, some very important areas in the enormous space between Bloomfieldian 'idiolect' and Chomskyan 'UG' in order to situate the human linguistic enterprise, and offers valuable insights into human linguisticality and sociality. These explorations expose the limits of correlationism, determinism, and positivistic reificationism, and offer new ways of doing sociolinguistics.Intended for both practicing and future sociolinguists, it is an ideal text-book for the times, particularly for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Author : Heinz J Giegerich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748630554

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Lexical Structures by Heinz J Giegerich Pdf

An original study of both structural entitiesoriginating in the lexicon, and the structural characteristics of thelexicon as a module of formal grammar, this book makes two contributions toour understanding of the formal grammar of English. Firstly, it presents acoherent theory of 'compounding' in English. There is a long-standingbut unresolved dispute in the literature as to whether certain constructions(e.g. LONDON ROAD, DENTAL TREATMENT) are compound words or syntacticphrases. The question is important because in other cases the distinction isclear-cut (RING ROAD, FREE TREATMENT respectively), and because it impingeson central assumptions regarding the organisation of the grammar.Secondly,the book suggests an alternative to the commonly assumed sharp division ofthe grammar into the 'lexicon' and the 'syntax'. The lexicon-syntaxdistinction facilitates important new insights in the nature of compoundingin English. However, Heinz Giegerich argues that the Lexicalist assumptionof a sharp divide between the modules cannot be upheld: the two modulesoverlap, such that there are constructions in English that aresimultaneously compound and phrase. He suggests an alternative, tripartite,structure comprising three successive, and significantly overlapping,modules: the lexicon proper, the morphology and the syntax.The bookillustrates a grammar that is rather different from that envisaged inLexicalism (while still retaining that theory's basic insights) andprovides a better understanding of some of the most recalcitrant problems inEnglish word formation.

Author : Minghui Dong,Yanhui Gu,Jia-Fei Hong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031065477

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Chinese Lexical Semantics by Minghui Dong,Yanhui Gu,Jia-Fei Hong Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 22nd Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2021, held in Nanjing, China in May 2021. The 68 full papers and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 261 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Lexical Semantics and General Linguistics; Natural Language Processing and Language Computing; Cognitive Science and Experimental Studies; Lexical Resources and Corpus Linguistics.

Author : Mélanie Maradan
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783732906901

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Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions by Mélanie Maradan Pdf

Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundation for a new method to extract speakers’ opinions on lexical items from text corpora. The method is intended as a tool for language managers to detect and explore in context the reasons why speakers might accept or reject lexical items.

Author : Mary Dalrymple
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781849500104

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Lexical Functional Grammar by Mary Dalrymple Pdf

Presents an overview and introduction to Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a theory of the content and representation of different aspects of linguistic structure and the relations that hold between them. This book also presents a theory of semantics and the syntax-semantics interface.