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Journal articles on the topic "Lexical cartography"
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Véronis, Jean. "HyperLex: lexical cartography for information retrieval." Computer Speech & Language 18, no. 3 (July 2004): 223–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2004.05.002.
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Koch, Wolf Günther. "Lexical knowledge sources for cartography and GIS – development, current status and outlook." Geodesy and Cartography 65, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 259–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geocart-2016-0014.
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Abstract Lexical knowledge sources are indispensable for research, education and general information. The transition of the reference works to the digital world has been a gradual one. This paper discusses the basic principles and structure of knowledge presentation, as well as user access and knowledge acquisition with specific consideration of contributions in German. The ideal reference works of the future should be interactive, optimally adapted to the user, reliable, current and quotable.
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Stella, Massimo, and Manlio De Domenico. "Distance Entropy Cartography Characterises Centrality in Complex Networks." Entropy 20, no. 4 (April 11, 2018): 268. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20040268.
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We introduce distance entropy as a measure of homogeneity in the distribution of path lengths between a given node and its neighbours in a complex network. Distance entropy defines a new centrality measure whose properties are investigated for a variety of synthetic network models. By coupling distance entropy information with closeness centrality, we introduce a network cartography which allows one to reduce the degeneracy of ranking based on closeness alone. We apply this methodology to the empirical multiplex lexical network encoding the linguistic relationships known to English speaking toddlers. We show that the distance entropy cartography better predicts how children learn words compared to closeness centrality. Our results highlight the importance of distance entropy for gaining insights from distance patterns in complex networks.
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Luo, Zhuosi. "The Synthetic Performances of Teochew." Lingua sinica 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 58–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/linguasinica-2020-0003.
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Abstract Huang (2015) characterizes “Modern Chinese as a language of high analyticity at multiple levels” and demonstrates “a ranking of relative analyticity among the three dialects: Cantonese > Mandarin > TSM”. This paper argues that Teochew (cháoshànhuà, 潮汕話), another variety of Min, different from TSM, shows more synthetic performances than Mandarin. Chomsky’s “productivity” criterion (1970) helps distinguish lexical operations from syntactic ones. In this spirit, this paper will illustrate its arguments from two perspectives -- lexical and syntactic operations. When it comes to lexical operations, analyses on both the semantic changes within the same categories and the categorial shifts will be made. Besides, syntactic discussions on emphatic inflection, bare classifier phrases, verb-object order and other variants of V-movements in Teochew will also be demonstrated. All analyses will be put under the theoretical framework of generative grammar with the help of a cartography approach. For analyses at the lexical layer, this paper adopts Si’s 司富珍 (2012, 2017a, 2017b, 2018) XW structure, trying to capture the synthesis performances of the Teochew lexicon. As for syntactic operations, the split-CP hypothesis of Rizzi (1997, 2001, 2004) and Rizzi and Bocci (2015), the CL-to-D hypothesis of Simpson (2005), the light verb approach of Chomsky (1995) and the split-light verb hypothesis of Si 司富珍 (2018) will be used as references. Through comparative studies with Mandarin, Cantonese and other languages like English, this paper will conclude that Teochew is a dialect with higher synthesis compared with Mandarin.
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Lochy, Aliette, Corentin Jacques, Louis Maillard, Sophie Colnat-Coulbois, Bruno Rossion, and Jacques Jonas. "Selective visual representation of letters and words in the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex with intracerebral recordings." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 32 (July 23, 2018): E7595—E7604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718987115.
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We report a comprehensive cartography of selective responses to visual letters and words in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) with direct neural recordings, clarifying key aspects of the neural basis of reading. Intracerebral recordings were performed in a large group of patients (n = 37) presented with visual words inserted periodically in rapid sequences of pseudofonts, nonwords, or pseudowords, enabling classification of responses at three levels of word processing: letter, prelexical, and lexical. While letter-selective responses are found in much of the VOTC, with a higher proportion in left posterior regions, prelexical/lexical responses are confined to the middle and anterior sections of the left fusiform gyrus. This region overlaps with and extends more anteriorly than the visual word form area typically identified with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In this region, prelexical responses provide evidence for populations of neurons sensitive to the statistical regularity of letter combinations independently of lexical responses to familiar words. Despite extensive sampling in anterior ventral temporal regions, there is no hierarchical organization between prelexical and lexical responses in the left fusiform gyrus. Overall, distinct word processing levels depend on neural populations that are spatially intermingled rather than organized according to a strict postero-anterior hierarchy in the left VOTC.
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Ullah, Irfan, Liaqat Iqbal, and Ayaz Ahmad. "Pakistani Identity and Kamila Shamsies Novels: An Analysis in Stylistics (Thematic Parallelism)." Global Regional Review IV, no. II (June 30, 2019): 301–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(iv-ii).32.
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This paper explored thematic parallelism in Kamila five of Shamsies novels i.e. Salt and Saffron, Cartography, Broken Verses, Burnt Shadows, and Home Fire. The paper identify here conflicts, depressions, identity fluctuations and a relentless machination of transformations by the powerful and resisting quarters of the region. The repetitive rule of military in Pakistan, the negative fallouts of engagement in Afghanistans resistance against the Soviets, the alienation of Muhajirs, the national and international catastrophe of 9/11 emerge as the strings that reflect the dilemma of the nomadism of modern times. The tyranny of destructive forces is amply reflected in the parallel desolation of places, characters and cultures. Karachi in its violence is parallel to Tokyo and New York. These parallels sublimate each other in conveying the poignancy of uprootedness and loss of identity. The lexical and syntactic parallels identifiable through corpus tools helped in identifying such parallels.
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ZUSHI, MIHOKO. "Some Remarks on the Lexical Nature of Restructuring Predicates (G. Cinque, Restructuring and Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 4)." ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 25, no. 1 (2008): 340–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.9793/elsj1984.25.340.
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KOLOKOLOVA, NATAL’YA M. "LINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TERM "ROAD MAP"." HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES 76, no. 4 (2020): 85–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.21672/1818-4936-2020-76-4-084-088.
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The paper refers to the lexical meaning of the term "road map", which initially had a geographical and cartographic meaning, as a result of the calculated translation of the economic term roadmap into Russian, gained popularity in the administrative activities of institutions. The comparative research conducted in Russian and English is supported by large-scale sociological probing, the results of which prove the inappropriate use of this term in the professional and everyday life of the Russian-speaking population.
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Kysliak, Lesia. "NADVIRNA AREA ON LINGUISTIC MAPS." Philological Review, no. 1 (May 31, 2021): 52–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2415-8828.1.2021.232662.
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The paper is devoted to the status of dialects of the settlements in Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, which required a through studying of the works of well-known dialectologists of the boundaries of pokutskyi, naddnistrianskyi, hutsulskyi, boikivskyi dialects.
The paper contains the analysis of the linguistic maps of AUL (Atlas of the Ukrainian language), made by S. Bevzenko, О. Horbach, Ya. Zakrevska, F. Zhylko, Ya. Yanіv, Т. Yastremska; it also includes descriptive works of the researchers of sub-dialects of a south-west dialect where dialects of settlements of Nadvirna distirct, Ivano-Frankivsk region were represented.
The material, cartographed by precursors, has proved that dialects of Nadvirna area are not similar at all language levels. It was stated that researchers chose various networks of dialects which did not allow them to draw demarcation lines between hutsulskyi, naddnistrianskyi, pokutskyi and boikivskyi dialects. In descriptive works about these dialects a starting point in defining boundaries is Nadvirna, part of Nadvirna district (except for the settlements in the north), part of Nadvirna area to the north of Yaremche and others. The attention has been paid to the fact that a demarcation line can stretch for tens and hundreds of kilometers. The assumption has been made that a greater part of Nadvirna area will have a status of transitional dialects.
Some own maps of lexical-semantic phenomena, which helped separate groups of dialects – a northern group, a south-eastern group, were analyzed.
It has been stated that a larger number of cartographic data will enable to elaborate the boundaries of dialects which contact, to determine transitional dialects, to identify zones and groups of dialects on Naddniprianshchyna area.
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Shimada, Masaharu, and Akiko Nagano. "Miratives in Japanese." Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic Markers 7, no. 1-2 (November 23, 2017): 213–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhl.7.1-2.09shi.
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Abstract The notion of mirativity as a grammatical category separate from evidentiality is controversial, but a certain amount of cross-linguistic evidence speaks for its validity. The aim of this study is to investigate this notion in contemporary and earlier Japanese, which is shown to have mirative constructions: (i) no miratives, (ii) koto miratives, and (iii) lexical miratives. The particles no and koto are polyfunctional, and they have recently gained a mirative function. Lexical miratives are uttered by the younger generation. These findings raise a diachronic issue regarding the emergence of the three mirative constructions. Adopting Cruschina’s (2011) cartographic approach to discourse-related phenomena and the notion of “emotional vocative” offered by Yamada (1936), we argue that what binds the three constructions together is the involvement of the IFocP (Information Focus Phrase) and that their emergences are all explained by grammaticalization paths starting from nominals.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Lexical cartography"
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Arthur, Jillian Mary, and n/a. "A lexical cartography of twentieth century Australia." University of Canberra. Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 1999. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060602.125646.
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This thesis looks at the relation between the English language and the Australian place. I have
studied the vocabulary used by English speakers in Australia in the twentieth century of this
geographical place and its environment, and how this vocabulary both constructs multiple
and sometimes contesting 'Australias' and positions the settler in particular relations to this
place. Although English has occupied Australia for over a century by the time this study
begins, the analysis exposes the tensions, the gaps and the unease present in the use of a
European language in the Australian place.
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Fabbri, Michael Charles. "Working towards a cartographic lexicon, the role of units, structure, content, and expression in geographic information." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0019/MQ53265.pdf.
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Llorens, Anaïs. "Dynamique spatiotemporelle de la production de mots." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM5011.
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La production de mots intéresse un vaste réseau cérébral principalement localisé dans l'hémisphère gauche, synthétisé dans une revue de littérature traitant des études de production de mots en enregistrements intracérébraux. Nous nous sommes principalement focalisés sur l'implication du réseau cérébral lors de l'accès lexical en utilisant deux protocoles de dénomination d'images manipulant l'interférence sémantique, connue pour moduler les liens entre les étapes sémantiques et lexicales. Nous avons comparé la dynamique spatiotemporelle de ces protocoles utilisés de façon interchangeable dans la littérature, mais qui diffèrent dans l'implication de paramètres méthodologiques pouvant faire intervenir des mécanismes mnésiques tels que la familiarisation et la répétition. Notre hypothèse étant que ces paramètres étant si divergents, le réseau neuronal sous-jacent devrait au moins être modulé selon le protocole étudié. Notre étude EEG révèle deux patterns d'activité électrophysiologique distincts entre les protocoles attribuables à l'effet de familiarisation. Nous avons étudié l'implication de la structure hippocampique dans la production de mot via des enregistrements intracérébraux. Les analyses en temps-fréquence et en champs locaux montrent que l'hippocampe est impliqué dans l'apprentissage progressif des liens sémantico-lexicaux, mais aussi dans leur maintien en mémoire durant une courte période et dans leur récupération. Ce travail de thèse a permis de révéler que la dynamique spatiotemporelle de la dénomination d'images est modulée par différents facteurs, ce qui va à l'encontre de l'implication d'un réseau partagé par ces deux protocoles de dénomination d'imagesWords production involves a vast brain network mainly localized in the left hemisphere, summarized in a review of literature based on studies of word production in intracranial recordings.We focused principally on the involvement of the cerebral network during lexical access by using two picture naming protocols manipulating the semantic interference effect, known to modulate the links between semantic and lexical processes. We compare the spatiotemporal dynamics of these protocols interchangeably used in the literature, but which differ in the involvement of methodological parameters that may involve mnemonic mechanisms such as familiarity and repetition. Our hypothesis was that these parameters are so divergent that the underlying neural network should at least be modulated by the protocol investigated. Our EEG study reveals two distinct patterns of electrophysiological activity between the protocols due to the familiarization effect. We studied the involvement of the hippocampal structure in the production of word through intracranial recordings. The time-frequency and the local field analyses show that the hippocampus is involved in the progressive learning links between semantic and lexicon, but also in keeping them in memory for a short period and in their recovery. This work revealed that the spatiotemporal dynamics of picture naming is modulated by various factors, which goes against the involvement of a common network shared by these two picture naming protocols
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Boeglin, Noémie. "Représentations romanesques de la modernité parisienne dans le "Grand XIXème siècle", 1830-1913." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSES028/document.
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Dans cette thèse nous étudions les représentations romanesques de la modernité parisienne durant le « Grand XIXème siècle » (1830-1913) à travers un échantillonnage représentatif de 31 romans. Nous entendons la modernité comme une tradition du nouveau, incessamment renouvelée. Les romans sont la principale source de cette recherche, à laquelle nous adjoignons une source que nous avons créée à l’aide de logiciels de textométrie et SIG. Les auteurs décrivent en effet la ville de Paris par les parcours de leurs personnages, que nous pouvons associer à la marche urbaine. En identifiant et en cartographiant ces parcours, par le biais des odonymes mobilisés, nous pouvons créer une représentation cartographique de la ville de Paris dans notre échantillonnage. Textes et cartes sont alors analysés simultanément, car ils nous offrent deux clés d’entrée sur les représentations romanesques de la modernité parisienne. Nous avons étudié la modernité parisienne du micro au macro, c’est-à-dire de l’espace intime des logements jusqu’aux grandes opérations de transformation urbaine. Nous avons identifié quatre incarnations principales de la modernité dans la capitale : l’architecture, le commerce, les réseaux et les transports. La modernité est, effectivement, un assemblage de marqueurs caractéristiques. Or, certains semblent absents des romans de notre échantillonnage. Nous avons ainsi identifié ce que nous avons nommé les contrastes de la modernité entre absences, ambivalences et modernité négativeIn this thesis we study the representations of Parisian modernity during the “Grand XIXème siècle” through representative sampling of 31 novels. Modernity is for us like a tradition of the new incessantly renewed. Novels are the main source of this research, to which we add a source that we have created using textometry and GIS softwares. Authors describe the city of Paris by the walks of their characters. We can associate them with urban walk. We can identify and mapping these walks, by the names of streets which are used. So we can create a cartographic representation of the city of Paris in our sampling. Texts and maps are analyzed in the same time, because they give us two points of view of literary representations of Parisian modernity. We studied the modernity of Paris from the micro to the macro, from the intimate space of the housing to the large urban transformation operations. We identified four incarnations of modernity in the French capital: architecture, business, networks and transport. Modernity is an accumulation of characteristic markers. Some seem absent from the novels in our sampling. We consider them as contrasts of modernity, between absences, ambivalences and negative modernity
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Corneau, Patrick. "Emergence et évolution des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (NTIC) à partir d'une analyse du cycle de l'information scientifique et technique." Nantes, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998NANT3016.
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Le développement des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (NTIC) issues du processus de numérisation entraîne des bouleversements majeurs pour la production, la circulation et l'utilisation des savoirs. A partir d'une analyse du cycle de construction de l'information scientifique et de l'innovation technique (Théorie de la traduction et de l'acteur-réseau), il s'git d'étudier la génèse des cadres socio-techniques des nouveaux médias (Multimedia et réseaux informatiques) dans un contexte de réflexion stratégique. L'émergence de ce dispositif technique sera décrite par une analyse quantitative-qualitative de l'information de veille technologique diffusée par l'Agence pour la diffucion de l'information technologique (ADIT) à l'aide d'un outil infométrique (SAMPLER) basé sur la méthode des mots associés. En élaborant les cartes stratégiques entre science, technique et société, on montre que le succès des nouveaux médias dépend des alliances structurelles socio-techniques qu'ils produisent et qui les co-construisent. La notion de réseaux socio-techniques permet alors d'appréhender les restructurations en cours dans le champ de la communication : une mutation technique (passage au tout numérique) et l'avènement de l'économie en réseaux (politiques de déréglementation, globalisation des marchés et mondialisation de la concurrence). La conjugaison de ces deux phénomènes ouvre la voie à la convergence entre informatique, audiovisuel et télécommunication et, par suite, à l'emergence d'immenses possibilités de développement de services d'intérêts collectifs et marchands dont le multimédia et Internet sont une préfiguration. L'intérêt de l'approche par l'analyse des réseaux socio-techniques est de faire ressortir des thèmes et des orientations qui n'apparaissaient pas à la seule lecture de la presse de veille technologique et de montrer comment un ensemble de communautés professionnelles s'organisent, interagissent et se structurent au cours du tempsThe development of new information and communication technologies (nict) resulting from the digital processing of signs represents major upheavals for the production, the circulation and the use of knowledge and data. Starting with the analysis of the information cycle construction and a socio-logical model of innovation (theory of "translation" and "actor-network" by b. Latour and m. Callon), we will study the genesis of the socio-technical frameworks of new media (regrouped around multimedia and computer networks) in the context of economic strategy and industrial competitiveness. The emergence of this new technical apparatus will be described by a quantitative-qualitative analysis of the business and technological intelligence information diffused by adit (bulletin vigie nti) using an infometric tool (sampler) based on the co-word analysis method. An approach via the analysis of the socio-technical networks enables an emphasis of topics and orientations which do not appear when reading only the technological and business intelligence press
Books on the topic "Lexical cartography"
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Arthur, J. M. The default country: A lexical cartography of twentieth-century Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2003.
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Arregui, Ana, María Luisa Rivero, and Andrés Salanova, eds. Modality Across Syntactic Categories. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.001.0001.
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This volume explores the extremely rich diversity found under the “modal umbrella” in natural language. Offering a cross-linguistic perspective on the encoding of modal meanings that draws on novel data from an extensive set of languages, the book supports a view according to which modality infuses a much more extensive number of syntactic categories and levels of syntactic structure than has traditionally been thought. The volume distinguishes between “low modality,” which concerns modal interpretations that associate with the verbal and nominal cartographies in syntax, “middle modality” or modal interpretation associated to the syntactic cartography internal to the clause, and “high modality” that relates to the cartography known as the left periphery. By offering enticing combinations of cross-linguistic discussions of the more studied sources of modality together with novel or unexpected sources of modality, the volume presents specific case studies that show how meanings associated with low, middle, and high modality crystallize across a large variety of languages. The chapters on low modality explore modal meanings in structures that lack the complexity of full clauses, including conditional readings in noun phrases and modal features in lexical verbs. The chapters on middle modality examine the effects of tense and aspect on constructions with counterfactual readings, and on those that contain canonical modal verbs. The chapters on high modality are dedicated to constructions with imperative, evidential, and epistemic readings, examining, and at times challenging, traditional perspectives that syntactically associate these interpretations with the left periphery of the clause.
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Aboh, Enoch. Information Structure. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.004.
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This chapter discusses the cartographic approach to clause structure according to which information structure directly relates to syntactic heads that project within the clausal left periphery. This view is supported by data from languages in which information-structure-sensitive notions (e.g. topic, focus) are encoded by means of discourse markers that trigger various constituent displacement rules. Such empirical facts are compatible with the cartographic view in which lexical choices condition information packaging and clause structure. Put together, the cross-linguistic data presented in this chapter indicate that [FOCUS], [TOPIC], and [INTERROGATIVE] represent formal features that are properties of lexical elements and may sometimes trigger generalized-piping and snowballing movement.
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Schifano, Norma. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804642.003.0001.
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Chapter 1 outlines the main research questions of the book, namely identifying a detailed map of verb movement across a wide selection of (non-)standard Romance varieties and showing that much more variation is attested than traditionally assumed. In order to achieve this goal, verb placement is tested with respect to a number of hierarchically ordered adverbs, as mapped by Cinque (1999), and taking into account not only present indicative lexical verbs, but also different verb typologies. Before proceeding with the investigation, a number of assumptions are presented, such as the methodological ones (e.g. the intonational and scope requirements of the tested adverbs), the theoretical ones (e.g. hybrid cartographic-minimalist framework), as well as some comments on the method of data collection (cf. guided translation task with native speakers).
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Baunaz, Lena, and Eric Lander. Nanosyntax. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876746.003.0001.
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This chapter offers a thorough introduction to nanosyntactic theory, a development of the cartographic program in generative grammar. It discusses the foundations on which nanosyntax was conceived, such as the “one feature–one head” maxim and the universal functional sequence (fseq). It also provides a brief comparison of theoretical and terminological issues in nanosyntax vs. the competing framework of Distributed Morphology. It is seen that the syntactic component according to nanosyntax unifies aspects of (what are traditionally called) syntax, morphology, and formal semantics. This is reflected in the tools used to probe linguistic structure in the nanosyntactic approach, such as morphological decomposition, syncretism, and containment. The chapter also discusses the technical details of the syntax–lexicon relation, detailing the matching or spellout process and Starke’s view of spellout-driven movement. This chapter is meant to provide readers with the necessary background to understand and navigate the rest of the chapters in this volume.
Book chapters on the topic "Lexical cartography"
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Knowles, Francis E. "“Lexico Cartography” in LSP texts." In Terminology, LSP and Translation, 125. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.18.12kno.
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Lecky, Katarzyna. "Milton’s Map of Liberty." In Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance, 193–232. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198834694.003.0005.
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Chapter 5 turns to Milton’s exploration of custom as it informs Britain’s ancient territories of civic liberty in A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle (1637/45). Milton’s poetic map of the uneasy lands around the Welsh border juxtaposes competing visions of the land as massive or minuscule with rival definitions of its character as a Crown holding or a distinct nation. Like the pocket cartography it physically resembles, the poet’s publication is a rebus that argues on both lexical and image-based levels for a British government whose magistrates serve as temperate and virtuous representatives of the commons, acting in relative autonomy within the polity.
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Garzonio, Jacopo, and Silvia Rossi. "Functional and lexical prepositions across Germanic and Romance." In Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, 450–71. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841166.003.0018.
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In this chapter, lexical and functional prepositions (see van Riemsdijk 1990 and the papers in Cinque and Rizzi 2010) are compared in Germanic and Romance, in the light of a broad cartographic/nanosyntactic approach, in which all prepositional items have a complex internal structure. Such an approach offers a powerful tool not only for better describing and analyzing the complex (micro-)comparative data, but also for tracing the grammaticalization paths leading to the formation of new (lexical) Ps, which eventually could further functionalize into case marking items. The lexical and syntactic properties of both types of prepositions are considered, highlighting their differences and similarities. When considering functional prepositions, the English to and the Italian a ‘to, at’ will be considered.