Hasil untuk "Lexicography"

Jasmina Lukec

U radu će se prikazati djelovanje i značaj grofice Eleonore Patačić, posljednje članice obitelji, za svekoliku hrvatsku kulturnu povijest. Kći Katarine Patačić, koja je u hrvatskoj književnoj historiografiji upamćena kao naručiteljica i redaktorica zbirke Pesme horvatske (1781), prvoga svjetovnoga djela u hrvatskoj književnosti sa ženskim imenom kao priređivačem/redaktorom te najvažnija zbirka svjetovne lirike u kajkavskoj književnosti XVIII. stoljeća, potom supruga Bartola Patačića, koji je obavljao visoke političke i državničke poslove te u narodu uživao »sveopći ugled i ljubav«, cijeli je život posvetila humanitarnom radu. Na temelju dostupne literature te arhivskih istraživanja pokazat će se Eleonorin donatorski rad (novčani prilozi za izgradnju sakralnih objekata, podizanje nadgrobnih ploča članovima obitelji, donacija naslijeđene obiteljske knjižnice današnjoj Nacionalnoj i sveučilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu u dvama navratima), kao i dobrotvorna uloga, koja se ogleda u osnivanju najstarijega hrvatskoga dobrotvornoga društva u Varaždinu 1828., potom u zahtjevima iz oporuke kojima je grofica propisala da se postojeća novčana sredstva dodijele svima potrebitima na brojnim obiteljskim posjedima. Nakon smrti supruga Bartola 1817., grofica je realizirala i njegovu zamisao o osnivanju zaklade za pomoć kmetovima, ostavivši im posjede Vidovec, Guščerovec, Kalnik i Martijanec. Kao cijenjenoj dobrotvorki i ljubiteljici narodnoga jezika, djela su joj posvetili Josip Vračan (1823), Filip Smolec (1823) i Dragutin Rakovac (1831. i 1832), pa se u radu u transkribiranu obliku donose pojedini odlomci iz njihovih djela, kao i nekoliko anonimnih prigodnica upućenih Eleonori i članovima njezine obitelji, a sastavljenih u povodu imendana/rođendana.

Ondrej Tichy

Review of Martín Arista, Javier, ed., Sara Domínguez Barragán, Luisa Fidalgo Allo, Laura García Fernández, Yosra Hamdoun Bghiyel, Miguel Lacalle Palacios, Raquel Mateo Mendaza, Carmen Novo Urraca, Ana Elvira Ojanguren López, Esaúl Ruiz Narbona, Roberto Torre Alonso, Marta Tío Sáenz, and Raquel Vea Escarza. 2024. “Nerthusv5. Interface of textual, lexicographical and secondary sources of Old English.” www.nerthusproject.com. 

Vilma Zubaitienė

The article presents research on the usage of Lithuanian lexis and lexicographical works on the Lithuanian language from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. It reveals how scientific research has been related to academic activity and lexicographic work (data gathering, analysis, dictionary development), and vice versa. Talking about the early and mid-20th century, the focus lies on the well-grounded articles on appropriate language use by Kazimieras Būga and on the preparation of the “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language”, as well as on Jonas Jablonskis’ interest in the standard language, creation of new words, his work on the dictionary of Antanas Juška and his reviews of earlier dictionaries. Jablonskis’ own “Mūsų žodynėlis” [Our Dictionary] is also briefly discussed. Further on, the article talks about the work of Juozas Balčikonis and the beginnings of the academic “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language”. Particular mention is made of Pranas Skardžius’ and Antanas Salys’ research on word structure and usage. In addition, various articles in language journals as well as the structure and editorial principles of the journal “Kalbos patarėjas” are reviewed. The research in the Soviet era is mainly associated with the lexicographical activities of Jonas Kruopas and Kazys Ulvydas and the editorial work on both the (historical) “Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language” and the “Dictionary of the Present Lithuanian Language”. The research interest of this period lies primarily in the analysis of lexical structure and systemic relations, whereas publication activity focuses on editing special dictionaries (such as dictionaries of synonyms, antonyms, valency, phraseology, and comparisons), and the publication of textbooks and monographs in the field of lexicology. The article gives an overview of studies that analyse the development and change of various lexical items, describe different semantic groups, language variation, and its phrasal components. Furthermore, lexical databases and the information system e.kalba are given an overview. The main focus here lies on reviewing lexical research and lexicographical projects carried out in the 1990s and the early 21st century, and on revealing lexicographical problems.

Richard Ingham

This study investigates the polysemy of French loanwords in Middle English, analysing the attested senses of loan lexis in three occupational domains. Senses recorded in the Dictionnaire du moyen français and the Anglo-Norman dictionary were compared with corresponding lexical entries in the Middle English dictionary. Out of over 100 Middle English items borrowed from French, it is found that the great majority were polysemous in ways reflecting the source language semantics. This outcome contrasts with the usual finding that foreign borrowing in modern contexts produces monosemous loanwords. The conclusion is therefore drawn that the process of borrowing from French was of a different nature in the English medieval period. It is argued that bilingual users of French were agents of borrowing who replicated source word polysemy in their English. The likelihood that senses matching those of the French etymon arose in Middle English independently of source language polysemy is considered, but rejected.

Hassina Bouressace

A frequency dictionary of printed Arabic text is essential for natural language processing. It includes 1,251 XML files of Arabic documents collected from ten newspapers and magazines from different countries and created as the PATD database. A total of 2,344 articles were created with various structures: open vocabulary, multi-font, multi-size, and multi-style text. From these articles, 1,102,078 tokens, 19,926 sentences, and 1,000,000 words were extracted. This dictionary provides detailed information for each word, including English equivalents, usage statistics, usage distribution, and the most widely used terms. A thematic vocabulary list of the top words on various topics is also provided. This frequency dictionary is a useful resource of modern Arabic vocabulary for various specialists, students, and learners. The frequency dictionary is freely available to interested researchers on the webpage.

Maria S. Milovanova

The monograph uses the material of scientific and artistic discourses, lexicography and corpus linguistics to study metaphorical transfer and symbolization in language and culture, and also analyzes the verbal embodiment of the idea of sovereignty in the national heraldry of the former USSR states, Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, English-, French- and Portuguese-speaking countries.

Joanna Szerszunowicz, Ivana Vidović Bolt

The focal issue of the present paper is the conventional periphrasis as an object of contrastive research. Such expressions may have different cross-linguistic equivalents, including full, partial, parallel and zero counterparts. The present paper aims to discuss Polish periphrastic expressions and their Croatian equivalents in order to determine and analyze the relations between the units in question. The Polish units (165) are lexicographically attested, while their Croatian counterparts have been determined on the basis of dictionaries, corpora and interviews with native speakers of the Croatian language. The conventional periphrasis have not been researched from this perspective and the results may be useful for Polish-Croatian lexicography. The study shows that zero equivalents constitute the biggest group (91), followed by full equivalents (61) with significantly less numerous groups of partial and parallel counterparts (respectively: 5 and 8).

Kamil A. Khan, P. I. Barton

Kyle Hollins Wray, S. Zilberstein

Amir M. Ben-Amram

In this article, we study the complexity of the problems: given a loop, described by linear constraints over a finite set of variables, is there a linear or lexicographical-linear ranking function for this loop? While existence of such functions implies termination, these problems are not equivalent to termination. When the variables range over the rationals (or reals), it is known that both problems are PTIME decidable. However, when they range over the integers, whether for single-path or multipath loops, the complexity has not yet been determined. We show that both problems are coNP-complete. However, we point out some special cases of importance of PTIME complexity. We also present complete algorithms for synthesizing linear and lexicographical-linear ranking functions, both for the general case and the special PTIME cases. Moreover, in the rational setting, our algorithm for synthesizing lexicographical-linear ranking functions extends existing ones, because our definition for such functions is more general, yet it has PTIME complexity.

Jaroslaw Szlichta, P. Godfrey, Jarek Gryz

Dependencies have played a significant role in database design for many years. They have also been shown to be useful in query optimization. In this paper, we discuss dependencies between lexicographically ordered sets of tuples. We introduce formally the concept of order dependency and present a set of axioms (inference rules) for them. We show how query rewrites based on these axioms can be used for query optimization. We present several interesting theorems that can be derived using the inference rules. We prove that functional dependencies are subsumed by order dependencies and that our set of axioms for order dependencies is sound and complete.

Joao Marques-Silva, J. Argelich, Ana Graça et al.

I. Bloch

Andrej BEKEŠ

With this volume, Acta Linguistica Asiatica is entering its 3rd year. After the second half of last year, focusing on research in “Lexicography of Japanese as a Second/Foreign Language” we begin this year with selection of papers covering various perspectives and languages, from South Asian Languages, via Indian subcontinent and China all the way to Japan. The first paper, by Pritha CHANDRA and Anindita SAHOO, entitled Passives in South Asian Languages, discusses continuum of passive constructions, spreading over three language families , Indo-Aryan (Oriya), Dravidian (Malayalam) and Austro-Asiatic (Kharia), and forming a kind of sprachbund, based on a generalized notion of passive. This approach also shows that Tibeto-Burman languages such as Meitei and Ao also can be said to have passives. The second paper, by Kalyanamalini SAHOO, entitled Politeness Strategies in Odia, discusses the conceptual basis for politnesess strategies in Odia (spelled also Oriya as in the first paper), pointing out inadequacy of Brown and Levinson’s model of politness, and proposing a new, “community of practice” based model of politeness for Odia. The next two papers deal with neologisms in Chinese language. LIN Ming-chang in his paper A New Perspective on the Creation of Neologisms focuses on the language user’s psychological requirements for devising neologisms, and therefore proposes a new research perspective towards the reasons for devising neologisms. Mateja PETROVČIČ in her paper The Fifth Milestone in the Development of Chinese Language investigates the structure and features of neologisms in the last century. The author suggests that the widening gap between rich and poor should be considered as the fifth milestone for changes in Chinese language. In the fifth paper, We Have It too: A Strategy Which Helps to Grasp the Japanese Writing System for Students from Outside of the Chinese Character Cultural Zone, the author, Andrej BEKEŠ, argues for employment of analogy transfer strategies to help beginner learners of Japanese to overcome cognitive and affecctive blocade when facing the complexities of Japanese writing system.

Krešimir Regan

Balode I. (translated from German by A. Vaskinevich)

This article analyses the Königsberg context of the activities of 18th century enlighteners — Johann Gotthelf Lindner and Jacob Lange — in the Baltics and offers an overview of their linguistic works. On the basis of the hypothesis about the influence of the Königsberg spirit of Enlightenment on the formation of Lindner’s and Lange’s linguistic activities, the author shows that, in the Baltics, the Enlightenment had several modifications differing in forms and objectives. It is demonstrated that, when compiling German-Latvian and Latvian-German dictionaries, both authors target their works at German settlers; however, Lindner’s work is targeted solely at a German-speaking recipient, whereas that of Lange requires that the reader be acquainted with the Latvian language and Latvian peasant lifestyle.

Henning Bergenholtz, Inger Bergenholtz

A dictionary is an information tool. In the last century most dictionaries were constructed as polyfunctional tools following a broad and imprecise understanding: A dictionary is to be used by everyone for every kind of communicative and cognitive problem. But normal tools are not polyfunctional. If you go to a shop and ask for a saw, you have to specify first what you are going to saw: a big tree or a small piece of plywood. After having explained that, you will be offered a monofunctional saw. So it should be, too, for the information tool: A good tool is a tool designed for a certain function and for a certain user group for certain needs. This paper will argue for the need of dictionary designs for monofunctional dictionaries. Doing that, we need to be aware of the fact that a lexicographical database is not a dictionary. A database contains data which can be presented in one or more monofunctional or polyfunctional dictionaries. The database of the dictionary in question comprises 4.015 (September 30st, 2012) cards with definitions, historical background, synonyms, references and links, pictures etc. Outgoing from this database, four different dictionaries are presented. All of them are dictionaries on musical terms mainly from the world of classical music, but also from commercial music and the so-called world music. The music dictionaries intend to be tools for music students in universities and music schools, for both amateurs and professional musicians and for every interested person who wants aid when reading texts on music or who wishes to get further information on musical terms and topics.

Richard Booth, Y. Chevaleyre, J. Lang et al.

L. Blume, Adam Brandenburger, Eddie Dekel

D. Corneil, S. Olariu, Lorna Stewart