Terminologies, Lexical Hierarchies and other Configurations Radek Vogel

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogel, Radek, author.

Contributor:

Central and Eastern European Online Library

Series:

Foreign Languages: Linguistics and Literature Studies

Foreign Languages: Linguistics and Literature Studies 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language studies.

Theoretical Linguistics.

Lexis.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Brno [Czech Republic] : Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The focus of the monograph is on hierarchical systems of lexical items, particularly in scientific terminologies. It includes research outcomes from the dissertation Lexical Hierarchies in the Scientific Terminology, supplemented with a broad introduction to the typology of lexical and semantic relations and to a variety of branching and non-branching hierarchies, proportional series and other types of lexical configurations. It analyses the principles of formation of terminological classificatory hierarchies and identifies sense relations between items at superordinate and subordinate levels, and those at the same level. Specific morphological and onomatological properties of different languages influence consistency of corresponding lexical hierarchies, although the conceptual systems are identical.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

List of tables and figures

List of abbreviations

Preface

1| Language of science

1 | 1 Science, terminologies and hierarchical lexical sets

1 | 2 The aims, methods and research questions of this study

1 | 3 Occupational varieties and the style of science

1 | 4 Terms and their formation

1 | 5 Semantic and syntactic condensation

2| Lexical units and relations between them

2 | 1 Semantic fields and lexemes

2 | 2 Sense relations seen through predicate calculus

2 | 3 Synonymy

2 | 4 Polysemy and synonymy of terms

2 | 5 Oppositeness and antonymy

2 | 6 Hyponymy

2 | 6 | 1 Inclusion and entailment

2 | 6 | 2 Compatibility, incompatibility, paraphrases and imperfect relations

2 | 6 | 3 Relation between antonymy and hyponymy

2 | 6 | 4 Markedness - general and specific words

3| Lexical hierarchies

3 | 1 Classificatory hierarchies: introduction

3 | 2 Taxonomy

3 | 2 | 1 Properties of taxonomy

3 | 2 | 2 Natural and nominal kind hyponyms

3 | 2 | 3 Taxonomic overspecification and underspecification

3 | 3 Meronomy

3 | 3 | 1 Meronyms and holonyms

3 | 3 | 2 Transitivity vs. intransitivity of meronymy

3 | 4 Relation between taxonomy and meronomy

3 | 5 Relations similar to the part-whole relation

3 | 6 Proportional series as non-hierarchical configurations

3 | 6 | 1 Open vs. closed, consistent vs. inconsistent series

3 | 6 | 2 Endonyms, exonyms, analogues and lexical siblings

3 | 6 | 3 Paronymy

3 | 7 Non-branching lexical hierarchies

3 | 7 | 1 Derivation of non-branching hierarchies

3 | 7 | 2 Non-lexicalised branching and non-branching hierarchies

3 | 7 | 3 Scalar non-branching hierarchies

3 | 7 | 4 Chains vs. cycles/helices

4| Biological taxonomy

4 | 1 The principles of binomial nomenclature and biological taxonomy.

4 | 2 Representation of evolution in tree diagrams

4 | 3 Botanical taxonomic system and its taxonyms

4 | 4 Zoological taxonomic system and its taxonyms

4 | 5 Taxonymic inconsistencies: synonymy and polysemy

4 | 5 | 1 Terminological synonymy

4 | 5 | 2 Terminological polysemy

5| Lexical hierarchies in the nomenclature of economics

5 | 1 Lexical sources of the language of economics

5 | 2 Lexico-semantic properties of the financial and accounting terminology

5 | 3 Taxonymic inconsistencies in the language of economics: polysemy and synonymy

5 | 4 Lexical hierarchies in economics, finance and accounting

6| Lexical hierarchies in natural vs. social sciences

6 | 1 Natural vs. artificial classifications

6 | 1 | 1 Properties of taxons at higher levels

6 | 1 | 2 Polysemy of vernacular generic names

6 | 1 | 3 Other social hierarchies: military ranks

6 | 2 Term-formation-its sources, means and processes

6 | 3 Nomenclatures in the vertical perspective

6 | 4 Principles of term-formation at the horizontal level

6 | 4 | 1 Co-hyponyms in biological taxonomies

6 | 4 | 2 Co-hyponyms in the lexical hierarchies of accounting and finance

7| Properties of lexical hierarchies in biology and in economics: synthesis and conclusions

References

Summary

Zusammenfassung

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Name index

Subject Index.

ISBN:

80-210-8563-0

OCLC:

1305843524