The Semantic Transparency Of English Compound Nouns

Author : Martin Schäfer
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961100309

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The semantic transparency of English compound nouns by Martin Schäfer Pdf

What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families. All semantic annotations used in the book are freely available.

Author : Martin Schäfer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1013291255

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The Semantic Transparency of English Compound Nouns by Martin Schäfer Pdf

What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Réka Benczes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027223734

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Creative Compounding in English by Réka Benczes Pdf

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun–noun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves. Backed up by recent psycholinguistic evidence, the book convincingly demonstrates that such compounds are not semantically opaque as it has been formerly claimed: they can in fact be analysed and accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, by the combined application of metaphor, metonymy, blending, profile determinacy and schema theory; and represent the creative and associative word formation processes that we regularly apply in everyday language.

Author : Laurie Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108416030

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Compounds and Compounding by Laurie Bauer Pdf

This controversial new book addresses the linguistic problems around compounds: words which sit on the borderline of syntax and morphology.

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107099708

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The Semantics of Compounding by Pius ten Hacken Pdf

Presents three frameworks for studying morphology, offering different insights into the meaning of compounds.

Author : Gary Libben,Gonia Jarema
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191536489

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The Representation and Processing of Compound Words by Gary Libben,Gonia Jarema Pdf

This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words. It shows the insights this work offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory. Compounding is an easy and effective way to create and transfer meanings. By building new lexical items based on the meanings of existing items, compounds can usually be understood on first presentation, though - as, say, breadboard, cardboard, cupboard, and sandwich-board show - the rules governing the relations between the components' meanings are not always straightforward. Compound words are segmentable into their constituent morphemes in much the same way as sentences can be divided into their constituent words: children and adults would not otherwise find them interpretable. But compound sequences may also be independent lexical items that can be retrieved for production as single entities and whose idiosyncratic meanings are stored in the mind. Compound words reflect the properties both of linguistic representation in the mind and of grammatical processing. They thus offer opportunities for investigating key aspects of the mental operations involved in language: for example, the interplay between storage and computation; the manner in which morphological and semantic factors impact on the nature of storage; and the way the mind's computational processes serve on-line language comprehension and production. This book explores the nature of these opportunities, assesses what is known, and considers what may yet be discovered and how.

Author : Laurie Bauer,Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319141022

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Semantics of Complex Words by Laurie Bauer,Lívia Körtvélyessy,Pavol Štekauer Pdf

This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks. Contributions by experts in the field, both morphologists and psycholinguists, identify crucial areas of research, present alternative and complementary approaches to their examination from the current level of knowledge, and indicate perspectives of research into the semantics of complex words by raising important questions that need to be investigated in order to get a more comprehensive picture of the field. Recent decades have seen both extensive and intensive development of various theories of word-formation, however, the semantic aspects of complex words have, with a few notable exceptions, been rather neglected. This volume fills that gap by offering articles written by leading experts in the field from various theoretical backgrounds.

Author : Pius ten Hacken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748689613

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Semantics of Word Formation and Lexicalization by Pius ten Hacken Pdf

In the study of word formation, the focus has often been on generating the form. In this book, the semantic aspect of the formation of new words is central. It is viewed from the perspectives of word formation rules and of lexicalization. An extensive introduction gives a historical overview of the study of the semantics of word formation and lexicalization, explaining how the different theoretical frameworks used in the contributions relate to each other. Each chapter then concentrates on a specific question about a theoretical concept or a word formation process in a particular language and adopts a theoretical framework that is appropriate to the study of this question. From general theoretical concepts of productivity and lexicalization, the focus moves to terminology, compounding, and derivation. Theoretical frameworks discussed include Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure, Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, Lieber's lexical semantic approach to word formation, Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon, Beard's Lexeme-Morpheme-Base Morphology, The onomasiological approach to terminology and word formation.

Author : Sven Kotowski,Ingo Plag
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111076430

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The Semantics of Derivational Morphology by Sven Kotowski,Ingo Plag Pdf

Die Buchreihe Linguistische Arbeiten hat mit über 500 Bänden zur linguistischen Theoriebildung der letzten Jahrzehnte in Deutschland und international wesentlich beigetragen. Die Reihe wird auch weiterhin neue Impulse für die Forschung setzen und die zentrale Einsicht der Sprachwissenschaft präsentieren, dass Fortschritt in der Erforschung der menschlichen Sprachen nur durch die enge Verbindung von empirischen und theoretischen Analysen sowohl diachron wie synchron möglich ist. Daher laden wir hochwertige linguistische Arbeiten aus allen zentralen Teilgebieten der allgemeinen und einzelsprachlichen Linguistik ein, die aktuelle Fragestellungen bearbeiten, neue Daten diskutieren und die Theorieentwicklung vorantreiben.

Author : Elisabeth Huber
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111082110

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Tri-Constituent Compounds by Elisabeth Huber Pdf

This book provides a usage-based perspective to the study of multi-word compounding, analyzing the structural, functional and cognitive aspects of tripartite compounds (e.g. day care center, football game, hotel bedroom). It highlights the heterogeneity of these word-formation products, but also carves out surprising differences to two-word compounds. In order to reveal the step from two-word compounding to multi-word compounding, the book explains why only some compounds are used productively for the formation of more complex compounds. Building on the idea of entrenchment, it provides a theoretical account that allows understanding speakers’ ability to produce multi-word compounds.

Author : Steve Pepper,Francesca Masini,Simone Mattiola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110673524

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Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Steve Pepper,Francesca Masini,Simone Mattiola Pdf

The typological, contrastive, and descriptive studies in this volume investigate the strategies employed by the world’s languages to create complex denotations by combining two noun-like elements, together with the kinds of semantic relation they involve, and their acquisition by children. The term ‘binominal lexeme’ is employed to cover both noun-noun compounds and a range of other naming strategies, including prepositional compounds, relational compounds, construct forms, genitival constructions, and more. Overall, the volume suggests a new, cross-linguistic approach to the study of complex lexeme formation that cuts across the traditional boundaries between syntax, morphology, and lexicon.

Author : Pius ten Hacken,Renáta Panocová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443885096

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Word Formation and Transparency in Medical English by Pius ten Hacken,Renáta Panocová Pdf

As a side effect of the rapid progress in medical research and of the emergence of new medical conditions, medicine is a domain where new concepts have to be named more frequently than in many other domains. Because of the prominent position of English in medical research, most of these concepts are first named in English. This raises questions relating to the naming strategies adopted and the consequences of the choice of particular strategies. These consequences are not restricted to English, because the English terms often need to be translated and are sometimes borrowed. This volume consists of an introduction and eight chapters. The first four chapters focus on the choice of naming strategy and the consequences for the transparency of the resulting names in English. These chapters address the international pharmaceutical nomenclature, the terminology of psychiatry and of middle-ear surgery, and the use of neoclassical word formation. The following four chapters concentrate on the issues of translation and borrowing evolving from the choice of names in English. They address translation into Spanish, Slovak, Polish and Turkish.

Author : Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110432442

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Word Knowledge and Word Usage by Vito Pirrelli,Ingo Plag,Wolfgang U. Dressler Pdf

Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and functioning of the Mental Lexicon, by asking domain experts to look at common, central topics from complementary standpoints, and discuss the advantages of developing converging perspectives. The book will explore the connections between computational and algorithmic models of the mental lexicon, word frequency distributions and information theoretical measures of word families, statistical correlations across psycho-linguistic and cognitive evidence, principles of machine learning and integrative brain models of word storage and processing. Main goal of the book will be to map out the landscape of future research in this area, to foster the development of interdisciplinary curricula and help single-domain specialists understand and address issues and questions as they are raised in other disciplines.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111074917

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Viktor Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000362848

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Naming and Framing by Viktor Smith Pdf

This book offers an innovative, unified theoretical model for better understanding the processes underpinning naming and framing and the power that words exert over human minds. The volume integrates theoretical paradigms and empirical insights from across a broad array of research disciplines, several of which have not been combined before, and uses this foundation as a point of departure for introducing its four-layered model of distinct but connected levels of analysis. Bringing together insights from cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics together with multimodal perspectives, Smith establishes new cross-disciplinary links, further integrating work from neighbouring fields such as marketing, health communication, and political communication, that indicate paths for future research and implications for communicative ethics. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in multimodality, communication, semiotics, cognitive psychology, and linguistics, as well as those in related disciplines such as marketing, political communication, and health communication.