Predicting the Semantics of English Nominalizations: A Frame-Based Analysis of -ment Suffixation

Kawaletz, Lea; Plag, Ingo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-14102-2_14

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“…It has long been known that derivational affixes can be highly polysemous, exhibiting a range of different, often related, meanings. To account for this problem, it is commonly assumed that polysemy arises through the interaction of affix semantics with the meaning of the base [18]. Our study supports an approach in which the semantics of a derivational process is conceptualized as its potential to induce particular metaphoric shifts in the semantic representation of its bases.…”

Section: A Demonyms or Persons' Names According To The Place Of Resisupporting

confidence: 62%

Proper Names Derivatives as a Productive Word Formation Type

Mzhelskaya¹,

Patlasov²

2019

Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)

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The following paper is devoted to the study of semantic word formation problem in the nomination theory. Onomastic derivatives are the empirical material of the study. The research hypothesis questions is whether proper names can transfer to the category of words combining the nominative function with the connotative one or not. Currently, it is possible to break up the collected empirical material into four groups. The results of the research can be used in the study of linguistics -word formation, to be precise. Keywordsmethods of word formation, semantic word formation, derivatives, appellation, proper names, etymologyI.Linguists studying derivation focus their attention to the problems derivation structure, articulation and formality of the fundamentals, the multiplicity of motivations of derived words,

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Section: A Demonyms or Persons' Names According To The Place Of Resisupporting

confidence: 62%

Proper Names Derivatives as a Productive Word Formation Type

Mzhelskaya¹,

Patlasov²

2019

Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)

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“…The suffix -ment derives event nominalizations with a wide range of possible readings, depending on the base and the context (see e.g. Kawaletz & Plag, 2015).…”

Section: -Mentmentioning

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Spelling errors in English derivational suffixes reflect morphological boundary strength

Gahl

Plag

2022

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To what extent do speakers decompose morphologically complex words, such assegmentable, into their morphological constituents? In this article, we argue that spelling errors in English affixes reflect morphological boundary strength and degrees of segmentability. In support of this argument, we present a case study examining the spelling of the suffixes -able/-ible, -ence/-ance, and -mentin an online resource (Tweets), in forms such as <availible>, <invisable>, <eloquance>, and <bettermint>. Based on previous research on morphological productivity and boundary strength (Hay, 2002;Hay & Baayen, 2002,2005), we hypothesized that morphological segmentability should affect the choice between <able> vs. <ible>, <ance> vs. <ence>, and <ment> vs. <-mint>. An analysis of roughly 23,000 non-standard spellings is consistent with that hypothesis, underscoring the usefulness of spelling variation as a source of evidence for morphological segmentability and for the role of morphological representations in language production and comprehension.

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“…Note that although we assume that a change of state always comes with a PRESTATE, this PRESTATE is not part of the event structure encoded by an eventive noun such as Explosion. This is evident if one looks at the referents of event nouns which are subject to polysemy but never include a PREREGION as a potential referent (see Kawaletz and Plag 2015 for a frame account of the polysemy of event nominalizations). Likewise, although a spatial object has some (possibly variable) PREREGION, this region is not a part of it.…”

Section: Literal Stehen Versus Lvc Stehen + Vor + Npmentioning

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Towards a Compositional Analysis of German Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) Combining Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) with Frame Semantics

Fleischhauer¹,

Gamerschlag²,

Kallmeyer³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers

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Complex predicates formed of a semantically 'light' verbal head and a noun which contributes the major part of the meaning are frequently referred to as 'light verb constructions' (LVCs). In the paper, we present a case study of LVCs with the German posture verb stehen 'stand'. In our account, we model the syntactic as well as semantic composition of such LVCs by combining Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) with frames. Starting from the analysis of the literal uses of posture verbs, we show how the meaning components of the literal uses are systematically exploited in the interpretation of stehen-LVCs. The paper constitutes an important step towards a compositional and computational analysis of LVCs. We show that LTAG allows us to separate constructional from lexical meaning components and that frames enable elegant generalizations over event types and related constraints.

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Predicting the Semantics of English Nominalizations: A Frame-Based Analysis of -ment Suffixation

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Proper Names Derivatives as a Productive Word Formation Type

Proper Names Derivatives as a Productive Word Formation Type

Spelling errors in English derivational suffixes reflect morphological boundary strength

Towards a Compositional Analysis of German Light Verb Constructions (LVCs) Combining Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) with Frame Semantics

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