This article identifies a semantically motivated typology of lexicalization paths to account for the formation of nominal compounds from complex noun phrases. The typology includes coordination, semantic roles and possession, which, systematically, seems to be the origin of various subclasses of appositional, copulative and endocentric compounds, and the typology has serious implications for li...

Neological processes in the lexico-semantic subsystem of collective “labels” reflect changing social reality and patterns its language development. The results analysis new socionyms German language, functioning modern Internet communication is presented article. Derivative, semantic-motivational, syntagmatic, functional signs socionyms-neologisms belonging to semantic groups POOR - RICH, LOCAL...

We investigate the question whether an explicit feature representation for morphological features is necessary when parsing German with a fully lexicalized, statistical dependency parser. We use two morphosyntactic phenomena of German to show that while lexicalization does indeed suffice to a large extent when recovering the internal structure of noun phrases, an accurate explicit representatio...

Marco Kuhlmann, Alexander Koller and Giorgio Satta, Lexicalization and Generative Power in CCG, 2015, Computational linguistics Association for Computational Linguistics (Print), (41), 2, 215-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/COLI_a_00219 Copyright: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): STM Titles / MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/default.asp?sid=19E29805-C0A0-4642-8...

This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using 36 motion events, we compared English and Spanish speakers’ linguistic descriptions to their performance on two non-linguistic tasks: recognition memory and similarity judgments. We investigated the effect of lan...

This paper adopts a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis approach to explore the pragmatics of lexical categories in courtroom discourse. More specifically, this probes extent which interlocutors employ particular lexemes achieve specific pragmatic purposes, which, turn, contributes understanding way language operates effectively within legal settings. The data used is taken from testimo...