Linking the Dictionary of Old Dutch to A Thesaurus of Old English

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 493-513
Author(s):  
Katrien Depuydt ◽  
Jesse de Does
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Instituut Voor ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Dutch Language

Abstract At the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), DiaMaNT, a diachronic semantic computational lexicon of Dutch, is being developed, based on the scholarly historical dictionaries of Dutch. The main purpose of this lexicon is to enhance text accessibility and foster research in the development of concepts. This article explores the feasibility of enriching DiaMaNT with an existing semantic classification by linking a subset of the vocabulary of the Dictionary of Old Dutch to A Thesaurus of Old English.

scholarly journals De digitale apparaten voor de dialectstudie aan de Gentse Universiteit

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Jacques Van Keymeulen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Instituut Voor ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Year 2000

Abstract Digital tools for dialectology at the Ghent UniversityTill the year 2000, all professors of Dutch Linguistics at Ghent University were professional dialectologists, who were at pains to carefully document the dialects of Dutch speaking Belgium. These efforts resulted in large collections of dialect data. During the last decade, all collections were digitized and made available in open access to a large audience. In this article, we will in short present both already available databases (and the accompanying tools) and the projects in progress. Eventually, all Ghent dialect databases will be hosted and cared for by the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Institute for the Dutch Language) at Leiden (The Netherlands).

scholarly journals Constructions Waxing and Waning: A Brief History of the Zero-Secondary Predicate Construction

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Frauke D’hoedt ◽  
Hendrik De Smet ◽  
Hubert Cuyckens
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
English Prose ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Verb ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Shed Light

In the English Secondary Predicate Construction (SPC), a predicative relation between a noun phrase (NP) and a “secondary predicate” (XP) is established by a main verb ( He finds Verb her NP attractive XP). While the syntactic nature of this construction has received ample attention from a synchronic perspective, this study aims to shed light on the diachronic developments of the SPC. First, using data from the York-Toronto-Helsinki Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE) and the Penn corpora, a classification is proposed of the verbs occurring in the SPC. Based on this semantic classification, the development of the SPC is then traced from Old English to Late Modern English in terms of frequency and productivity. It is argued that, while the various classes of SPC-taking verbs often show opposite developments, these lower-level incongruities are resolved at a higher schematic level, as the SPC as a whole underwent a process of internalization. These findings underscore the importance of lower-level developments in the diachronic behavior of schematic constructions and consequently contribute to the literature on constructional change.

The Sound of Enemies and Friends in the Neighborhood

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 454-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Pecher ◽  
Inge Boot ◽  
Saskia van Dantzig ◽  
Carol J. Madden ◽  
David E. Huber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Visual Word Recognition ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Visual Word ◽  
Orthographic Neighborhood ◽  
Semantic Classification ◽  
Semantic Class ◽  
Orthographic Neighbors ◽  
Target Words

Previous studies (e.g., Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Wagenmakers, 2005) found that semantic classification performance is better for target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the same semantic class (e.g., living) compared to target words with orthographic neighbors that are mostly from the opposite semantic class (e.g., nonliving). In the present study we investigated the contribution of phonology to orthographic neighborhood effects by comparing effects of phonologically congruent orthographic neighbors (book-hook) to phonologically incongruent orthographic neighbors (sand-wand). The prior presentation of a semantically congruent word produced larger effects on subsequent animacy decisions when the previously presented word was a phonologically congruent neighbor than when it was a phonologically incongruent neighbor. In a second experiment, performance differences between target words with versus without semantically congruent orthographic neighbors were larger if the orthographic neighbors were also phonologically congruent. These results support models of visual word recognition that assume an important role for phonology in cascaded access to meaning.

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