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Leonhard Lipka - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • An outline of English Lexicology : lexical structure, word semantics, and word-formation
    Language, 1991
    Co-Authors: Leonhard Lipka
    Abstract:

    Surprisingly enough, the term lexicolog y is not to be found in most mediumsized dictionaries and in various handbooks (e.g. LYONS 1977) and English grammars (with the exception of the Longma n Dictionar y of Contemporar y Englis h (LDCE) 21987 and Quirk et al. 1985). Only lexicography , explained as 'dictionary-making* or 'the writing and making of dictionaries', is usually mentioned. Apparently this situation is now changing. Lexicolog y might be defined as the study of the lexico n or lexis (specified as the vocabulary or total stock of words of a language).

Lisi Marianna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • La polysémie en français et en italien : approche contrastive et retombées didactiques
    2018
    Co-Authors: Lisi Marianna
    Abstract:

    Polysemy is a formal property of a vocable, which is such that it contains more than one semantically related lexical units. Identifying the polysemic structure of vocables in a given language is a key issue in theoretical semantics and lexicography, since polysemy is at the heart of the internal structure of natural language systems. The purpose of this research is twofold. It targets the development of a contrastive approach to polysemy in order to implement a set of vocabulary learning strategies. The first chapter aims at reviewing the current state of the art in the field of polysemy. Where the term polysemy was introduced during the late XX century, the concept has its roots in the Aristotelian tradition and stimulated an open debate between the various approaches, until recent research literature. At present, there are several points of dis- agreement both among polysemy theories and lexicographical methods. The second chapter is intended to present the theoretical and methodological framework that underpins the study : the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology, which is the lexical branch of the Meaning-Text Theory. Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology develops a lexicographical model of polysemy, based on a well-defined series of semantic and syntactic criteria. Each lexical unit of a vocable \u2014 a complex cluster of semantic, formal and combinatorial properties \u2014 is disambiguated by defining its semantic actants and its lexical relations. The set of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations is translated in the system of lexical functions. One of the more recent developments of the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology, is the French Lexical Network, an ongoing project that targets the construction of a full-scale lexical resource for the French language. It displaces the lexicographical description from a paper format to an electronic environment, through the use of the lexicographical editor Dicet. The French Lexical Network deepens the theoretical representation of polysemy, by establishing a typology of co-polysemy links. Furthermore, the French Lexical Network represents a lexicographic prototype, which can be applied to other languages. Some tween projects, developed on the French model, already exist for Russian and Spanish. Similarly, a lexicographical ressource for the Italian language, the Italian Lexical Network, is developed within the framework of this study. The third section of the study provides a polysemy-based contrastive analysis of taste vocabulary in French and Italian. As a preliminary step, a priming wordlist is drawn up of 4 704 Italian vocables. Subsequently, taste-related vocables (i.e. all the vocables which are semantically included in the lexical field of taste) are extracted and analysed. Data analysis mainly suggest two different trends : synonymous polysemes, two vocables which share the same meaning at all levels of their polysemic structure and which establish the same copolysemy links ; crossing polysemes, two vocables which intersect at some points of their polysemic structures. A contrastive polysemy approach can be exploited for pedagogical purposes. This is the aim of the last chapter, which consists in a three-session module designed for B1 students of French as a second language. Throughout a series of didactic activities, the student is expected to improve the quality of its lexical knowledge and to nip lexico-semantic mistakes in the bud

  • La polysémie en français et en italien : approche contrastive et retombées didactiques
    2018
    Co-Authors: Lisi Marianna
    Abstract:

    Polysemy is a formal property of a vocable, which is such that it contains more than one semantically related lexical units. Identifying the polysemic structure of vocables in a given language is a key issue in theoretical semantics and lexicography, since polysemy is at the heart of the internal structure of natural language systems. The purpose of this research is twofold. It targets the development of a contrastive approach to polysemy in order to implement a set of vocabulary learning strategies. The first chapter aims at reviewing the current state of the art in the field of polysemy. Where the term polysemy was introduced during the late XX century, the concept has its roots in the Aristotelian tradition and stimulated an open debate between the various approaches, until recent research literature. At present, there are several points of dis- agreement both among polysemy theories and lexicographical methods. The second chapter is intended to present the theoretical and methodological framework that underpins the study : the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology, which is the lexical branch of the Meaning-Text Theory. Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology develops a lexicographical model of polysemy, based on a well-defined series of semantic and syntactic criteria. Each lexical unit of a vocable — a complex cluster of semantic, formal and combinatorial properties — is disambiguated by defining its semantic actants and its lexical relations. The set of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations is translated in the system of lexical functions. One of the more recent developments of the Explanatory and Combinatorial Lexicology, is the French Lexical Network, an ongoing project that targets the construction of a full-scale lexical resource for the French language. It displaces the lexicographical description from a paper format to an electronic environment, through the use of the lexicographical editor Dicet. The French Lexical Network deepens the theoretical representation of polysemy, by establishing a typology of co-polysemy links. Furthermore, the French Lexical Network represents a lexicographic prototype, which can be applied to other languages. Some tween projects, developed on the French model, already exist for Russian and Spanish. Similarly, a lexicographical ressource for the Italian language, the Italian Lexical Network, is developed within the framework of this study. The third section of the study provides a polysemy-based contrastive analysis of taste vocabulary in French and Italian. As a preliminary step, a priming wordlist is drawn up of 4 704 Italian vocables. Subsequently, taste-related vocables (i.e. all the vocables which are semantically included in the lexical field of taste) are extracted and analysed. Data analysis mainly suggest two different trends : synonymous polysemes, two vocables which share the same meaning at all levels of their polysemic structure and which establish the same copolysemy links ; crossing polysemes, two vocables which intersect at some points of their polysemic structures. A contrastive polysemy approach can be exploited for pedagogical purposes. This is the aim of the last chapter, which consists in a three-session module designed for B1 students of French as a second language. Throughout a series of didactic activities, the student is expected to improve the quality of its lexical knowledge and to nip lexico-semantic mistakes in the bud

G Van Huyssteen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Lexicology semantics and lexicography
    Lexikos, 2010
    Co-Authors: Adelia Carstens, G Van Huyssteen
    Abstract:

    Julie Coleman and Christian J. Kay (Eds.). Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected Papers from the Fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998. 2000, xiv + 249 pp. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory Volume 194. ISBN 90 272 3701 8 (Eur.), 1 55619 972 4 (US). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Price US$ 75,00 (Hb).

Christian J Kay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Lexicology semantics and lexicography selected papers from the fourth g l brook symposium manchester august 1998
    2000
    Co-Authors: Julie Coleman, Christian J Kay
    Abstract:

    1. Introduction 2. Brook Memoir by Alan Shelston 3. List of Contributors 4. Lexical Gaps, Cognition and Linguistic Change (by Fischer, Andreas) 5. Folk-Etymology: Haphazard Perversion or Shrewd Analogy? (by Rundblad, Gabriella) 6. Mechanisms of Semantic Change in Nouns of Cognition: a General Model? (by Koivisto-Alanko, Paivi) 7. Historical Semantics and Historical Lexicography: will the twain ever meet? (by Kay, Christian) 8. Strange Linguists: the Cant and Slang Dictionary Tradition (by Coleman, Julie) 9. Lexical Choices in an Early Galilean Translation (by Gotti, Maurizio) 10. Grund to Hrof: Aspects of the Old English Semantics of Building and Architecture (by Biggam, Carole P.) 11. Five Hundred Years of Love: a Prototype-Semantic Analysis (by Tissari, Heli) 12. The Vocabulary of Consent in Middle English (by Sylvester, Louise) 13. The Discourse Motivations for Neologising: Action Nominalization in the History of English (by Cowie, Claire) 14. The Vernacularization of the Negative Prefix Dis-in Early Modern English (by McConchie, R.W.) 15. Brook Symposium Edited by Christian Kay 16. Author and Subject Index