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Metaphor and Lexical Semantics
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2008 : This paper shows that several sorts of expressions cannot be interpreted metaphorically, including determiners, tenses, etc. Generally, functional categories cannot be interpreted metaphorically, while lexical categories can.
Michael Glanzberg
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On Some Criteria for Defining Lexical Semantics
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2010 The article examines the two major types of word meaning – broad meaning and polysemy. An attempt is made to define the standards which will make the distinction between these complicated, extremely indefinite and at times partly or fully coinciding ...
Yelena Yerznkyan, Lusine Harutyunyan
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On the semantics of nonwords and their lexical category.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019 Using computational simulations, this work demonstrates that it is possible to learn a systematic relation between words’ sound and their meanings. The sound-meaning relation was learned from a corpus of phonologically transcribed child-directed speech by using the Linear Discriminative Learning (LDL) framework (Baayen, Chuang, Shafaei-Bajestan, & ...
Cassani, Giovanni +2 more
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The Lexical Semantics of Imaginings—A Corpus-Based Analysis
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020 In this paper, I propose a decompositional lexical semantic analysis of the plural noun imaginings. The data for this study are sourced from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), and as analytical framework an object-oriented semantics based
Andrea C. Schalley
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Lexical factors in the allocation of unique morphemes [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2023 The article characterizes the lexical factors influencing the allocation of unique morphemes (affixal and root morphemes), such as the lexical semantics of the word, its belonging to the active or passive language stock, the scope of its use and
Ratsiburskaya Larisa V.
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Morphological cues for lexical semantics [PDF]
Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1996 Most natural language processing tasks require lexical semantic information. Automated acquisition of this information would thus increase the robustness and portability of NLP systems. This paper describes an acquisition method which makes use of fixed correspondences between derivational affixes and lexical semantic information. One advantage of this
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Synonymic Traps in Selected English Lexical Semantics Terms
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2019 The paper zooms in on terminological and conceptual scrutiny of selected eight English lexical semantics terms with the aim of pointing out their terminological synonymy, which is often misrecognized by English linguistics undergraduates.
K. Bednárová-Gibová
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Semantic Analysis of Persian Words Based on Format-Based Semantics [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2014 Format-based semantics was first proposed by Charles Fillmore after putting forward the notion of ‘format’ (1977a, 1977b, 1985, 1987) as a perspective in the framework of semantics. Fillmore, in this lexical approach, uses the term format as a method for
Rahele Gandomkar
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Interfaces between Lexicography, Semantics and Translation
Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2018 This article discusses possible connections between Lexicography, Semantics, and Translation. Through the experience of writing a bilingual dictionary in the Portuguese-Spanish direction, made for Brazilians, it was verified the need to reflect on the ...
Arelis Felipe Ortigoza Guidotti
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The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology, 2023 Background Semantics is the study of meaning, and it pertains to the meanings of linguistic expressions such as words, phrases, grammatical forms, and sentences.
Dina Mohammed Abd-Elmoneim +3 more
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