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Affectedness: Observations on Turkish
This study aims to describe the linguistic concept of affectedness, which is mostly intuitively but not clearly defined, though it has been used frequently in the related literature in Turkish.
Pınar İBE AKCAN
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On Encoded Lexical Meaning: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
The past few years have seen quite a bit of speculation over relevance theorists’ commitment to Fodorian semantics as a means to account for the notion of encoded lexical meaning that they put forth in their framework. In this paper, I take on the issue,
Stavros Assimakopoulos
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Second language learners face a dual challenge in vocabulary learning: First, they must learn new names for the hundreds of common objects that they encounter every day.
Benjamin D Zinszer +4 more
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The role of the prefixoid polu- in lexical gradation (Based on the lexicon treated in volume 22 of the SASA dictionary) [PDF]
In the recently published Volume 22 of the SASA Dictionary, as many as 76 pages are devoted to lexemes containing the formative полу-, numbering more than 1,100 entries.
Dragićević Rajna M.
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Text: now in 2D! A framework for lexical expansion with contextual similarity
A new metaphor of two-dimensional text for data-driven semantic modeling of natural language is proposed, which provides an entirely new angle on the representation of text: not only syntagmatic relations are annotated in the text, but also paradigmatic ...
Chris Biemann, Martin Riedl
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Ontologies and Construals in Lexical Semantics [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework of lexical meaning, broadly along the lines of Cognitive Semantics (Langacker 1987a). Within the proposed model, all aspects of meaning are to be explained in terms of properties of ontologies in conceptual space, i.e.
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Distributional and Knowledge-Based Approaches for Computing Portuguese Word Similarity
Identifying similar and related words is not only key in natural language understanding but also a suitable task for assessing the quality of computational resources that organise words and meanings of a language, compiled by different means. This paper,
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
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The Story of One Word: Studying the Semantics of Loanwords Through Digital Footprints
Description of the potential of digital traces for studying the dynamics of semantic changes in Anglicisms in the Russian language using the tool Google Ngram was conducted on the material of the electronic library Google Books.
Yulia M. Alyunina
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In recent research, metaphor is increasingly confronted in terms of a cline rather than a dichotomy. Yet the decision of whether a word or phrase is metaphoric is not as straightforward as a one-level cline suggests.
Katie Jane Patterson
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Gender-biased neologisms: the case of man-X
This article presents a semantic and frequency-based diffusion analysis of one specific type of gendered coinages that we will refer to as “man-neologisms” such as man bun, mancation (man + vacation) or manspread.
Océane Foubert, Maarten Lemmens
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