
Lexical Semantics for Terminology
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- Intro
- Lexical Semantics for Terminology
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Typographical conventions
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. Why apply lexical semantics in terminology?
- Chapter 2. Terminology
- 2.1 The knowledge paradigm
- 2.2 Storing and accessing concepts and terms
- 2.3 The knowledge paradigm from a linguistic point of view
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 3. Lexical semantics for terminology
- 3.1 A basic illustrative example
- 3.1.1 Meaning versus concept
- 3.1.2 Dealing with lexical units that belong to different parts of speech
- 3.1.3 Making (fine-grained) semantic distinctions
- 3.1.4 Taking into consideration relations between terms
- 3.1.5 Considering the combinatorics of terms
- 3.1.6 Considering the syntactic behavior of terms
- 3.2 Corpus and terminology
- 3.3 Some relevant frameworks for terminology
- 3.3.1 Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology
- 3.3.2 Frame Semantics
- 3.4 Questions that lexical semantics cannot answer
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 4. What is a term?
- 4.1 Identification of terms
- 4.1.1 Relationship with a subject field
- 4.1.2 The importance of the application
- 4.1.3 Can proper nouns be terms?
- 4.1.4 Different parts of speech
- 4.1.5 Single-word items versus multiword expressions
- 4.1.6 Different names for the same thing
- 4.2 Different approaches to the 'term'
- 4.3 Terms as lexical units
- 4.4 Criteria for selecting terms
- 4.5 Applying term identification criteria to a specific domain
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 5. Concepts, meaning and polysemy
- 5.1 Knowledge-based approaches to linguistic content
- 5.1.1 Dealing with multiple concepts
- 5.1.2 Accounting for concepts in terminological resources
- 5.1.3 Explaining concepts
- 5.1.4 An alternative view on concepts
- 5.1.5 Multidimensionality
- 5.1.6 Other factors affecting the way concepts are delimited or defined
- 5.2 Lexicon-based approaches to linguistic content
- 5.2.1 Terms in the lexicon of a language
- 5.2.2 Criteria for semantic distinctions
- 5.2.3 Polysemy versus ambiguity
- 5.2.4 Dealing with multiple meanings
- 5.2.5 Meaning modulations
- 5.2.6 Handling complicated cases: absorb and absorption
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 6. Predicative terms, participants and arguments
- 6.1 Predicative terms and other kinds of terms
- 6.2 Defining the argument structure of a predicative term
- 6.3 Quasi-predicative terms
- 6.4 Argument structures in specialized versus general language
- 6.5 Representing predicative and quasi-predicative terms
- 6.6 Argument structure and semantically related terms
- 6.7 Argument structure and syntax
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 7. Relations between concepts and terms
- 7.1 Conceptual relations and conceptual structures: A matter of classification
- 7.1.1 The backbone of a conceptual structure: The taxonomy
- 7.1.2 Partitive relations
- 7.1.3 Conceptual synonymy
- 7.1.4 Opposition as a conceptual relation
- 7.1.5 Other conceptual relations
- 7.2 Terminological relations
- 7.2.1 Paradigmatic versus syntagmatic relations
- 7.2.2 Paradigmatic relations
- 7.2.2.1 Hypernymy and hyponymy
- 7.2.2.2 Synonymy
- 7.2.2.3 Antonymy and other opposites
- 7.2.2.4 Paradigmatic relations across different parts of speech
- 7.2.3 Syntagmatic relations
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 8. Discovering structures in specialized domains
- 8.1 Structures based on conceptual relations
- 8.1.1 Accounting and representing conceptual relations
- 8.1.2 Handling relations in conceptual structures
- 8.1.3 Linking conceptual structures and definitions
- 8.2 Structures based on terminological relations
- 8.2.1 Lexical functions to unveil the terminological structure
- 8.2.1.1 The workings of lexical functions
- 8.2.1.2 Lexical functions for terminology
- 8.2.1.3 Exploring terminological relations with "softer" versions of lexical functions
- 8.2.1.4 Further classifying relations
- 8.2.1.5 Definitions based on terminological structures
- 8.2.1.6 Translations of collocations
- 8.2.2 Semantic frames to discover different kinds of structures
- 8.2.2.1 Obtaining a better view of related situations with frames
- 8.2.2.2 Highlighting differences between specialized and general knowledge
- 8.2.2.3 Capturing meaning modulations and different conceptualizations within the same domain
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 9. Equivalence in terminology
- 9.1 Conceptual equivalence
- 9.2 Terminological equivalence
- 9.3 Problems when establishing equivalence
- 9.3.1 Non-equivalence
- 9.3.2 Partial equivalence
- 9.3.3 Structural divergences
- 9.4 Equivalence in running text
- Summary
- Further reading
- References
- Corpus examples references
- Index
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