Selected lexical and grammatical issues in the meaning-text theory : in honour of Igor Mel'čuk / / edited by Leo Wanner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965819903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
• ISBN: 9786612154898; 9781282154896; 1282154893; 9789027292773; 9027292779
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 377 p. : ill
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series ; ; 84; Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 84
• Altri autori (Persone): WannerLeo; Mel'čukIgor' A <1932-> (Igor' Aleksandrovič)
• Disciplina: 413/.028
• Soggetti: Lexicology; Grammar, Comparative and general; Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Selected Lexical and Grammatical Issues in the Meaning-Text Theory -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Authors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Bibliography -- What to Do with the Ideophones? A Problem in Lexical Classifation from Upper Necaxa Totonac -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonological and Morphological Properties -- 2.1 Sound Symbolism -- 2.2 Reduplication -- 2.3 Relations to Other Words -- 3 Syntactic Properties -- 4 Semantic Properties -- 5 Ideophones and Adverbs as Predicate-Qualifiers -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix: Ideophones in the Upper Necaxa Database -- Lexical Function Standardness -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Nature of Standardness -- 2.1 Definition Part 1: The General Notion of Lexical Function -- 2.2 Definition Part 2: Lexical Function Standardness -- 2.3 Some Preliminary Observations about LF Standardness -- 2.4 Why Is Lexical Functin Stndardness an Issue? -- 2.4.1 LF Standardness =&gt -- ; Universality =&gt -- Something about the Mind -- 2.4.2 As Nature Does Not Like Vacuum, Formal/Computational Linguistics Does Not Like Non-Standardness -- 2.4.3 LF Standardness Is Directly Linked to the Granularity of LF Encoding -- 3 Empirical vs. Logical Approaces to Expanding the Set of Standard Lexical Functions -- 3.1 Empircally Identifying New Standard LFs -- 3.2 Inferring New LFs from the Existing System of Standard LFs -- 4 De nouveau again: A Case Study Based on the DiCo/LAF Project -- 4.1 The DiCo/LAF Lexicograhic Project -- 4.2 Data on De nouveau 'again' -- 4.3 Choosing a Name for the Non-Standard LF -- 4.4 Positioning De nouveau within the System of Standard LFs -- 4.4.1 De nouveau as an "F(F)" Paradigmatic LF -- 4.4.2 De nouveau's Relationship with Caus and Incep -- 4.4.3 De nouveau and Différent "different' -- 4.5 Potential for Standardization.; 5. Where to Go from Here? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: DiCo/LAF Data on de nouveau -- Appendix B: DiCo/LAF Data on Essayer de -- Towards the Synthesis of Support Verb Constructions: Distribution of Syntactic Actants between the Verb and the Noun -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Object and the Framework of the Study -- 1.2 The Problem -- 1.3 The Goal of the Paper -- 2. The Diathesis of the Support Verb -- 3 Number of DSynt As of he LF Operi -- 3.1 Variable Diathesis of LF Operi -- 3.2 Only Two DSynt As for All Operi -- 3.3 Number of DSyntAs of Operi Depending on its Value -- 4 Transition Rules Concerning SVCs -- 5. Paraphrasing Rules Concerning SVCs -- 5.1 Lexical Paraphrasing Rules -- 5.2 Syntactic Paraphrasing Rules -- 5.3 Distribution of DSyntAS in the Syntactic Fission Rule -- 6 Synthesis Procedure -- 6.1 Evaluaton of Possibility 1: Variable Diathesis -- 6.2. Evaluation of Possibility 2: Diatsis with Only Two DSyntAs -- 6.3 Possibility 3: Diathsis Differentiated Depending on SSyntS -- 6.4 Passage from the Sem-Level to the DSynt-Level for a SVC -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Motivation of Lexical Associations in Collocations: The Case of Intensifiers Denoting 'Joy' -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Tentative Semantic Analysis of NJs and IntenseAdjs -- 2.1 The Semantic Class of NJs -- 2.1.1 NJs and Other Kind of Nouns -- 2.1.2 Dimensions of NJs -- 2.2 Semantic Analysis of Adjective of Intensity -- 2.2 1 Expression of intensity with NJs -- 2.2.2 Intense Adjs Occurring with NJs -- 2.2.3 Semantic dimensions -- 3. Principles Underlying IntenseAdj+NJ Associations -- 3.1 Reinforcement -- 3.2 Convergence of Polarity -- 3.3 Coherence with the Semantic Types of NJs -- 4. Proposal for the Lexicogrphic Representation of Intense Adjs.; 4.1 How to Encode Regulqrities in Collocate Entries of a Dictionary Such as the ECD -- 4.2 Example: Encoding of the Lexemes AFFREUX and DÉSESPOIR -- 4.2.1 Lexeme DÉSESPOIR1 -- 4.2.2 Lexeme AFFREUX (IntenseAdjs) -- 4.3 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- Ackowledgemnts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Using Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology to Describe Term -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2. Basic Aspects of Terms and How Terminology Views Them -- 3 Previous Work Resorting to Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology (ECL) -- 3.1 A Concrete Proposal to Resort to ECL -- 3.2 Specialized Dictionaries Comatible with ECL -- 3.2.1 Contextual Dictionaries -- 3.2.2 A Specialized Learners' Dictionary -- 3.2.3 Specialized Combinatorics -- 3.3 What These Endeavors Teach Us about Terms -- 4. Using ECL at all levels of the description of terms -- 4.1 Confirming Specialized Senses -- 4.2 Describing Prdicative Terms -- 4.3 Capturing Relationships between Terms -- 4.4 What This Work Tells Us about Terms -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Lexical Functions in Actual NLP-Applications -- Abstract -- 1 ETAP-3 and MTT -- 2 The Notion of Lexical Function -- ; 3. LFs in Computerized Dictionaries and NLP Grammar Rules -- 4. LFs as a Disambiguation Tool in Parsing -- 4.1 Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution -- 4.2 Lexical Ambiguity Resolution -- 5 Finding Idiomatic Equivalents in MT with the Help of LF -- 6 An LF-Based Computer System of Parahrasing Utterances -- 6.1 Theory of the Paraphrasing System -- 6.2 Experimental Data -- 7 Computer-Aided Learning of Lexica -- 7.1 Dictionaries -- 7.1.1 Analytical Definitions -- 7.1.2 Lexical Functions in the Language Learning Tool -- 7.2 Linguistic Games -- 8 Conclusions -- Acknoledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Towards Automatic Recognition of Lexical Function Instances -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction.; 2 Lexical Fuctionns -- 3 The Approach -- 3.1 The Classification Strategies -- 3.2 Basic Assumptions and Notations -- 3.3 ML-Techniques for the Classification of LF-Instances -- 3.3.1 Nearest Neighbor Classification -- 3.3.2 Naïve Bayesian Network Classification -- 3.3.3 Tree Augmented Naïve Bayesian (TAN) Classification -- 4. SpEWN as the Source of the Semantic Description of Lexical Items -- 5 The Experiments -- 5.1 LF-Material Used in the Experiments -- 5.2 The Experiment Setup -- 5.3 Single Field Collocation Classification Experiment -- 5.4 Field-Independent Collocation Classification Experiment -- 6. What Do the Expriments Tell Us? -- 7 Related Work -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Semantic Equivalence Rules in Meaning-Text Paraphrasing -- Abstract -- 1 Paraprasing in the Meaning-Text Linguistic Theory -- 2 The Meaning-Text Paraphrasing System -- 3. Limits of Deep-Syntactic Paraphrasing -- 4. Semantic Approach to Paraphrasing -- 4.1 Basic semantic concepts -- 4.2 Propositional equivalences -- 4.3 Communicative equivalences -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Phrasing It Differently -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problematics -- 3. Topological Phrase Structure for German -- 3.1 Different Word Order Phenomena in German -- 3.2 Topological Model -- 3.3 Word Order Rules for German -- 4 Comparison of Different Topological Phrase Structures -- 4.1 Flat Topological Phrase Structures -- 4.2 Embedding -- 4.3 Emancipation -- 5 Extension of the Basic German Grammar -- 5.1 The Internal Structure of the Verb Cluster -- 5.2 Sentential Complements -- 5.3 Relatives and Pied-Piping -- 6 Characterizing the Notion of Topological Phrase -- 6.1 Syntactic Tests -- 6.2 Prosodic Tests -- 7 The Place of the Phrase Structure in the Linguistic Model -- 8 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.; A Generative Approach to Parsing in the Framework of the Meaning-Text Theory -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From an Equative to a Generative Approach to Parsing -- 3 On a Generative Formalism -- 3.1 Elementary Trees -- 3.2 Combining Elementary Trees -- 3.3 The Generative Procedure -- 4 Parsing -- 4.1 The Parsing Algorithm -- 4.2 Ambiguity and Non-Determinism -- 4.2.1 Stack Duplication -- 4.2.2 Using a Graph-Structured Stack -- 4.3 Bi-directional parsing -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Name Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Meaning Text Theory (MTT) is a lexicon-centred and dependency-based theory for the description of language using a holistic model that incorporates semantics, syntax, morphology and lexis. This volume, prepared on the occasion of Igor Mel'čuk's 70th birthday, offers a cross-section of the current advances in MTT and its applications. The first part of the book focuses on lexical phenomena that are still largely neglected in mainstream linguistics: sound symbolism as manifested by ideophones, and idiosyncratic lexical relations as manifested by lexical functions (LFs). In particular, LFs are addressed from different angles ; (including the introduction of new "standard" LFs, the argument structure and semantic decomposition of lexical relations captured by LFs, automatic recognition of LF-instances in corpora, and the use of LFs in terminology and natural language processing). The second part of the book deals with such prominent model-oriented issues as semantic paraphrasing in MTT, the role of phrase structure in MTT and syntactic analysis within MTT.