IV. The relationship between semantic features and deep cases

1972 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Features ◽  
The Relationship

Theoretical Approaches to the Functions of Indefinite Pronouns

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Haspelmath
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Features ◽  
Semantic Change ◽  
Intrinsic Properties ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Mental Spaces ◽  
Logical Semantics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Indefinite Pronouns

This chapter focuses on various theoretical approaches to the semantic and syntactic functions of indefinite pronouns. It begins with a discussion of structuralist semantics, which suggests that language is a system whose parts must be defined and described on the basis of their place in the system and their relation to each other, rather than on the basis of their own intrinsic properties. It then considers some of the problems associated with structuralist semantics, including the unclear status of the semantic features; significant overlap of the functions of grammatical items in many areas, including indefinite pronouns; and structuralist semantics makes wrong predictions about semantic change. The chapter proceeds by analysing logical semantics and the issues raised by this approach, along with syntactic approaches, the theory of mental spaces, pragmatic scales and scale reversal. Finally, it explains the relationship between focusing and sentence accent.

An experimental investigation of the role of different types of iconic gesture in communication

Gesture ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Beattie ◽  
Heather Shovelton
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Accuracy Score ◽  
Iconic Gesture ◽  
Reliable Effect ◽  
Fundamental Conception ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Original Story ◽  
The Relationship

Respondents, who had either seen or not seen a sample of the iconic gestures that encoders produce when narrating a story, answered questions about the original story and it was found that the overall accuracy score for respondents who saw the iconic gestures in addition to hearing the speech was 56.8% compared to 48.6% for speech only. This was a highly reliable effect and suggests that iconic gestures are indeed communicative. Character viewpoint gestures were also significantly more communicative than observer viewpoint gestures particularly about the semantic feature relative position, but the observer viewpoint gestures were effective at communicating information, particularly about the semantic features speed and shape. There were no significant correlations between the amount of information that gestures added to speech and the amount they conveyed in its absence, which suggests that the relationship between speech and gesture is not fixed but variable. The implications of this research for our fundamental conception of iconic gestures are considered.

The determinants of baby talk: relationship to context

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura D'Odorico ◽  
Fabia Franco
Keyword(s):  
Informational Content ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Interaction Data ◽  
Baby Talk ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the relationship between context and mothers' speech to prelinguistic infants. In the first phase, videorecordings of a mother talking with her infant were transcribed; in the second phase, 48 mothers were asked to select the utterance most apt for a series of drawings representing different contexts of mother–infant interaction. Data analyzed with respect to syntactic and semantic features revealed that the informational content of mothers' speech is different in relation to various contexts. Furthermore, different syntactic types are chosen in relation to different contents. Results are discussed in relation to a hypothesis assuming that mothers' speech is determined by particular interactive rules operating in the mother–infant dyad.

scholarly journals Topicality and differential object marking

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgio Iemmolo
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Comparative Data ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Differential Object Marking ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Left Dislocation ◽  
Object Marking ◽  
The Relationship

The present paper investigates the relationship between dislocation and differential object marking in some Romance languages. As in many languages that have a DOM system, it is usually also assumed that in Romance languages the phenomenon is regulated by the semantic features of the referents, such as animacy, definiteness, and specificity. In the languages under investigation, though, these features cannot explain the distribution and the emergence of DOM. After discussing the main theoretical approaches to the phenomenon, I will analyse DOM in four Romance languages. I will argue that DOM emerges in pragmatically and semantically marked contexts, namely with personal pronouns in dislocations. I will then show that in these languages the use of the DOM system is mainly motivated by the need to signal the markedness of these direct objects as a consequence of being used in (mainly left) dislocation as topics (cf. English “As for him, we didn’t see him”). Finally, the examination of comparative data from Persian and Amazonian languages lends further support to the advocated approach in terms of information structure

‘Seeing’ is ‘trying’: The relation of visual perception to attemptive modality in the world's languages

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaly Voinov
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Related Notion ◽  
Serial Verbs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Syntactic Context

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between the concepts of ‘seeing’ and ‘attempting/trying’ in various languages. These concepts have so far been found to be co-lexified in languages spoken in Eurasia, Papua New Guinea, India and West Africa, with an added implicature of politeness present in some languages when this lexical item is used in directives. After establishing a cross-linguistic sample, the paper proposes a specific grammaticalization mechanism as responsible for producing this semantic relationship. The explanation centers on a process involving metaphorical transfer, the loss of semantic features, generalization, and a specific syntactic context conducive to this meaning shift. First, the Mind-as-Body metaphor is applied to the mind-related notion of ‘seeing an object’ to derive the body-related notion of ‘controlling an object’, as has previously been demonstrated to be the case in the history of certain Indo-European languages. Second, semantic bleaching causes the meaning component of physical sight to be lost from the overall meaning of the morpheme, and semantic generalization allows attempted actions to be mentally treated the same as physical objects that are manipulated. Finally, the context in which this meaning shift occurs is posited as constructions involving multiverbs, such as serial verbs or converbs.

scholarly journals ABBREVIATION IN THE SPEAKER’S GRAMMAR: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
E.N. Guts ◽  
◽  
D.V. Plotnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Speech Communication ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Grammatical Structure ◽  
School Students ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Russian Language

The article presents the results of a directed associative experiment carried out with high school students of secondary schools. The purpose of the article is to reveal the relationship between the structural and semantic features of the utterance and the strategies of the respondents’ choice of a linguistic sign (word/abbreviation) in the context of a directed associative experiment. The analysis of the experimental material made it possible to draw conclusions about the peculiarities of using the initial abbreviation as an associate; about the possibility of the abbreviation of stable and individual, situational associative links; about the strategies for choosing a linguistic sign (words, abbreviations, phrases) depending on the semantics of the reference word and the type of grammatical structure of the experimental sentence; on the consolidation of initial abbreviations in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers of the Russian language, which is associated with the strengthening of the law of economy of linguistic means in modern speech communication.

Word Familiarity and Retention

1974 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Loewenthal ◽  
Graham Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Delayed Recall ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Immediate Recall ◽  
Unknown Words ◽  
Word Familiarity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Good Retention

These experiments examine the relationship between subjects' familiarity judgements of words of similar (low) frequency and their recall or recognition of these words. The expected relationship between familiarity and recall was well confirmed, as was the less expected relationship between familiarity and recognition. An analysis of the vocabulary acquisition process led to more specific predictions about performance on delayed, as compared with immediate, retention tests. The most crucial of these predictions was that words which are familiar, but whose meanings are not known, are remembered by tagging sets of phonological (as opposed to semantic) features, leading to good immediate recall but poor delayed recall, and a greater likelihood of acoustic confusions following a delay. Some support was obtained for these predictions. However, subjects showed unexpectedly good retention of unknown words and it was felt that tagging alone does not account for all the findings.

scholarly journals ВІРШОВАНИЙ ТЕКСТ ЯК ОБ’ЄКТ ЛІНГВІСТИЧНОГО ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ

World Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2(54)) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
Ходаковська Н. Г.
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Content Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Aesthetic Aspect ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Integral Feature

The article provides an overview of modern theories of the artistic expression of verse texts. The inseparable connection of form and content has been established as an integral feature of the artistic speech of the verse text. The basic features of the verse text are identified, namely the relationship of sound and content organization, the interrelation of the meter and the theme. On the basis of the analysis the formalistic and structuralist approaches for the study of the form and content of the verse text are distinguished; the system-structural direction in which the verse text is conceived as a whole; the linguopoietic direction determines the interaction of the form and content of the verse text, and its linguistic elements cause an aesthetic effect. The aesthetic aspect of the poem is considered in the dialectical unity of cognitive and imaginative combinatorics. The purpose of linguoconceptology is to study the processes of conceptualization of the world (society, culture). An approach related to the semantic features of verbal text usage reveals their role in creating a verbal image.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE LANGUAGE GAME AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS IN THE PROSE OF A. T. AVERCHENKO

2018 ◽  
pp. 86-91
Author(s):  
Y. N. Kucheryavykh
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Language Game ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The article discusses the features of the formation and functioning of irony as a way of expressing evaluation in the relationship of the characters of works of art A. T. Averchenko. The importance of this phenomenon is determined by the dependence of the elements of its construction, as well as the external historical and literary vertical context, language elements that form the emotional and expressive marking of the statement. Therefore, it is possible to distinguish some types of ironic evaluation: non-reflexive and reflexive. Acting as a means of language comedism, pun in the humorous prose of Arkady Averchenko structurally-semantically organized, and, as an element of the language game, has the laws of construction and selection of stylistic techniques of creation and influence characteristic of the works of the writer. Therefore, the variety of means of creating a comic assessment in the artistic texts of the author suggests that the choice of a particular technique depends on the language personality of the writer, the ratio of linguistic and extralinguistic means of representing the evaluation in the literary text, because the meaning of the phrase predicted by the addressee is created at the expense of the expected word order for the original syntax. Consequently, the realization of the ironic meaning inherent by the Creator of the work of art in the lexemes, becomes clear only from the surrounding context. Since the game is the basis of any culture, the ratio of these concepts becomes the leading person playing, manifested in the manner of speech behavior of the linguistic personality of both the author-Creator and the character - his creations. Therefore, it is appropriate to state that the linguistic personality exists in the space of culture, and, therefore, it can be presented as a linguocultural type as an image recognizable by representatives of a certain national culture, embodied in the character of an artistic work as a creative and playing unique linguistic personality.

scholarly journals DISCO PAL: Diachronic Spanish sonnet corpus with psychological and affective labels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Barbado ◽  
Víctor Fresno ◽  
Ángeles Manjarrés Riesco ◽  
Salvador Ros
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Spanish Poetry ◽  
Affective Meaning ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Specific Term ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractNowadays, there are many applications of text mining over corpora from different languages. However, most of them are based on texts in prose, lacking applications that work with poetry texts. An example of an application of text mining in poetry is the usage of features derived from their individual words in order to capture the lexical, sublexical and interlexical meaning, and infer the General Affective Meaning (GAM) of the text. However, even though this proposal has been proved as useful for poetry in some languages, there is a lack of studies for both Spanish poetry and for highly-structured poetic compositions such as sonnets. This article presents a study over an annotated corpus of Spanish sonnets, in order to analyse if it is possible to build features from their individual words for predicting their GAM. The purpose of this is to model sonnets at an affective level. The article also analyses the relationship between the GAM of the sonnets and the content itself. For this, we consider the content from a psychological perspective, identifying with tags when a sonnet is related to a specific term. Then, we study how GAM changes according to each of those psychological terms. The corpus used contains 274 Spanish sonnets from authors of different centuries, from fifteenth to nineteenth. This corpus was annotated by different domain experts. The experts annotated the poems with affective and lexico-semantic features, as well as with domain concepts that belong to psychology. Thanks to this, the corpus of sonnets can be used in different applications, such as poetry recommender systems, personality text mining studies of the authors, or the usage of poetry for therapeutic purposes.

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