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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 377 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 413/.028
• Soggetto topico: Lexicology; Grammar, Comparative and general; Meaning-text theory (Linguistics)
• Altri autori: WannerLeo Mel'čukIgor' A <1932-> (Igor' Aleksandrovič)
• 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 => -- Universality => -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Selected lexical and grammatical issues in the meaning-text theory
• ISBN: 1-282-15489-3; 9786612154898; 90-272-9277-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816822003321
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