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Journal articles on the topic "Semantic categories of adjectives"

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Spencer, Andrew, and Irina Nikolaeva. "Denominal adjectives as mixed categories." Word Structure 10, no. 1 (2017): 79–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2017.0101.

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Many languages have morphological devices to turn a noun into an adjective. Often this morphology is genuinely derivational in that it adds semantic content such as ‘similar-to-N’ (similitudinal), ‘located-on/in’ (locational) and so on. In other cases the denominal adjective expresses no more than a pragmatically determined relationship, as in preposition-al phrase (see the synonymous preposition phrase), often called ‘relational adjectives’. In many languages relational adjectives are noun-to-adjective transpositions, that is, adjectival forms (‘representations’) of nominals. In some languages and constructions they retain some of the noun-related properties of the base. For example, the base can be modified by an attribute as though it were still a syntactically represented noun, giving rise to what we will call ‘syntagmatic category mixing’. We also find instances of ‘paradigmatic category mixing’ in which the derived adjectival form retains some of the inflectional morphology (case and/or number and/or possessive) of its base noun, as in a number of Uralic and Altaic languages. We address this kind of categorial mixing within the descriptive framework for lexical relatedness proposed in Spencer (2013) . A true transposition has a complex ‘semantic function’ (sf) role, consisting of the semantic function role of the derived category overlaid over that of the base. We explain how the complex semantic structure role of noun-to-adjective transpositions maps onto c-structure nodes, using the syntactic framework of Lexical Functional Grammar.
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Grashchenkov, P., and E. Lyutikova. "Adjectives in typology and linguistic theory: Semantics, distribution, derivation." Rhema, no. 4, 2018 (2018): 9–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2500-2953-2018-4-9-33.

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The paper discusses major theoretical issues concerning the adjectival category in both intralinguistic and crosslinguistic aspects. The basic semantic oppositions in the system of property-denoting lexical items are revealed; grammatical categories characteristic for adjectives are identified, generalizations on the syntactic distribution of adjectives are drawn. Special attention is paid to the issue of the structural position of adjectives and adjectival phrases within nominals.
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Ollennu, Yvonne Akwele Amankwaa. "ADJECTIVE SEQUENCING IN GA." Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics 10 (December 13, 2017): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/bjll.v10i0.1384.

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The use of multiple words to describe nouns is a common phenomenon in language and languages that have adjectives employ this word class.Ga, a Kwa language of the Niger Congo, branch is no exception, whereas languages without adjectives may use other lexical categories like nouns and verbs which play the adjectival role. Ga has adjectives and employs them as attributives for nouns. The paper examines the syntactic rule governing the occurence of several adjectives serving as attibtutes of a single head noun. In this paper the noun is considered as the head of the Ga Nominal Phrase. The order of these adjectives has not received scholarly attention in Ga and this is to fill that gap in the literature. I argued that the order of adjectives is not haphazardly arranged but follows a laid down syntactc prescription. For instance the data showed that Dimension adjectives normall occur in first position, whereas colour adjectives occur further from the head noun. It was also revealed that in the ordering of adjectives in which Value adjectives is included, the Age adjective occurs in last position and Value adjective occurs first or last when included in the ordering of adjectives for a noun. Consequently, it is opined that defying the arrangement in the ordering of the adjectives resulted in unacceptable forms.The adjectives are grouped according to Dixon semantic classes. Data is gathered from native speakers of Ga. The findings contribute to the existing literature on adjective sequencing in Ghanaian languages.
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Arciuli, Joanne, Linda Cupples, and Gabriella Vigliocco. "Are word meanings corresponding to different grammatical categories organised differently within lexical semantic memory?" Mental Lexicon 1, no. 2 (2006): 251–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ml.1.2.05arc.

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We report on two experiments that examined lexical semantic memory. Experiment 1 included semantically related word-pairs (similarity of meaning) and unrelated word-pairs from three grammatical categories (nouns, verbs, adjectives). Experiment 2 included semantically related word-pairs (contrasting meaning) and unrelated word-pairs from the same three categories. Results of both experiments showed similar levels of semantic priming across same versus different grammatical category word-pairs (e.g., verb–verb pairs vs. verb–adjective pairs). Additional analyses of each experiment showed similar levels of priming within each of the three grammatical categories (i.e., noun–noun vs. verb–verb vs. adjective–adjective pairs). These findings suggest that there are no sharp architectural distinctions amongst words from different grammatical categories within lexical semantic memory.
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Bae, Hee Sook. "Termes adjectivaux en corpus médical coréen." Terminology 12, no. 1 (2006): 19–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/term.12.1.03bae.

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In terminology, the predominance of nouns is an incontestable phenomenon. In Korean terminologies, this predominance of nouns is even more notable because the meaning and function associated with adjectives in Indo-European languages are often realized in noun form. However, the rarer adjectival terms are, the more they are used in restrictive, repetitive ways in specialized domains. Thus, it is important to distinguish the different senses of these terms. In this work, focusing on semantic characterization in terminology, we distinguish the different senses of adjectival medical terms by applying lexico-semantic criteria (L’Homme 2004a) and by classifying the arguments of the adjective into semantic categories (Bae et al. 2002). With this work, we aim to enrich terminological descriptions found in Korean medical dictionnaries by demonstrating empirically a method for distinguishing the different senses of adjectival medical terms. To achieve our goal, we used the KAIST corpus, composed of medical texts (1,500,000 eojeols), and a group of texts on various subjects (40,000,000 eojeols).
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Formanowicz, Magdalena, Agnieszka Pietraszkiewicz, Janin Roessel, Caterina Suitner, Marta Witkowska, and Anne Maass. "“Make it Happen!”." Social Psychology 52, no. 2 (2021): 75–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000435.

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Abstract. Verbs may be attributed to higher agency than other grammatical categories. In Study 1, we confirmed this hypothesis with archival datasets comprising verbs ( N = 950) and adjectives ( N = 2115). We then investigated whether verbs (vs. adjectives) increase message effectiveness. In three experiments presenting potential NGOs (Studies 2 and 3) or corporate campaigns (Study 4) in verb or adjective form, we demonstrate the hypothesized relationship. Across studies, (overall N = 721) grammatical agency consistently increased message effectiveness. Semantic agency varied across contexts by either increasing (Study 2), not affecting (Study 3), or decreasing (Study 4) the effectiveness of the message. Overall, experiments provide insights in to the meta-semantic effects of verbs – demonstrating how grammar may influence communication outcomes.
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Marinellie, Sally A., and Cynthia J. Johnson. "Adjective Definitions and the Influence of Word Frequency." Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 46, no. 5 (2003): 1061–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2003/084).

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The present investigation is a study of the development of adjective definitions given by participants in Grades 6 and 10 and by young adults, as well as the influence of word frequency on those definitions. A total of 150 participants (50 per age group) wrote definitions for 6 high-frequency and 6 low-frequency adjectives. Adjective definitions were analyzed for use of semantic content and also grammatical form. Findings indicated that content of adjective definitions generally followed a developmental course from concrete and functional to more abstract. Response patterns of certain categories, such as superordinate, have implications for organization of the mental lexicon and suggest that adjective definitions may be less predictable than definitions of other grammatical categories, such as noun. Although conventional syntactic form was highly used in definitions (i.e., adjectival form for a definition of an adjective), verb form was also highly used. Conventional form may be less useful to characterize adjective definitions than other grammatical classes. Findings suggest that word frequency has a robust influence on adjective definitions and that development progresses differently for high- and low-frequency words.
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Vea Escarza, Raquel. "The recursive formation of Old English non-verbal categories. Productivity and constraints." Journal of English Studies 13 (December 15, 2015): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.2860.

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This paper aims at analysing the recursivity in the formation of non-verbal categories, more specifically, of nouns and adjectives in old English. Pounder’s (2000) model, known as Process and Paradigm Model, provides the formal representation of recursive operations. The data of analysis consist of a total of 388 recursive nouns and adjectives, 11 of which undergo a two-level recursivity, or slot-II recursivity. Both in the case of nouns and adjectives, suffixation has a clearly preeminent role over prefixation. As for nouns, the suffix -nes is the most frequent one in number of tokens, whereas -∂ is the one that combines with a greater number of suffixes in prefinal position. Regarding adjectives, -lic is by far the suffix present in a higher number of predicates, and also the one that undergoes a wider variety of different recursive patterns, what evinces that there is correlation between a high type frequency and the assignment of a high number of different recursive patterns. Positional constraints affect -nes and -lic, since none of them can occur in a position other than final. A semantic interpretation of recursive suffixation leads to assign a semantic effect of this phenomenon when it applies to nouns, and a pragmatic one in the case of adjectives.
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Ravid, Dorit, Amalia Bar-On, Ronit Levie, and Odelia Douani. "Hebrew adjective lexicons in developmental perspective." New Questions for the Next Decade 11, no. 3 (2016): 401–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ml.11.3.04rav.

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Objective frequency does not always provide reliable information about lexical distributions across individuals’ development. We propose the subjective ranking by experts of lexical items’ register in the sense of ‘levels of linguistic usage’, which has been independently linked to AoA, as an alternative. This proposal was tested in Hebrew, a language showing marked distinctions between the everyday colloquial style and more formal, historically-related types of expression. A list of over 3,500 Hebrew adjectives in 19 morphological categories was compiled from dictionary sources. All adjectives on the list were ranked on a 1–5 linguistic register scale by 329 language expert judges. A Model Based Latent Class Analysis yielded five high-agreement groups of adjectives with mean register scores from 1.44 to 4.51, taken to represent five developmentally consecutive adjective lexicons. Semantic and morphological analyses indicated a rise in the abstractness and specificity of adjectives in the five lexicons, with concurrent changes in their morphological makeup. Two morphological categories emerged as the major components of the Modern Hebrew adjective lexicon: Resultative patterns, expressing states, and i-suffixed denominals, expressing nominal attributes. The study showed that subjective register classification may constitute a yardstick in development, with implications for other languages where register judgements can apply.
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Karenisa, Kity. "Adjektiva dalam Bahasa Maanyan (The Adjective in Maanyan Language)." JALABAHASA 14, no. 2 (2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.36567/jalabahasa.v14i2.207.

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Berdasarkan pengamatan terhadap adjektiva dalam bahasa Maanyan, terutama pada ciri morfologisnya, perilaku adjektiva dalam bahasa Maanyan berbeda dengan perilaku adjektiva bahasa Austronesia pada umumnya. Kategori sintaksis kalimat yang berbeda mensyaratkan bentuk adjektiva yang berbeda, yaitu dengan pemarkah adjektiva {ma-} ataupun tanpa pemarkah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui ciri adjektiva dalam bahasa Maanyan berdasarkan ciri morfologis, perilaku sintaksis, dan perilaku semantisnya. Data dalam penelitian ini dikumpulkan oleh peneliti dari bahasa yang dikuasainya sebagai penutur asli bahasa Maanyan, kemudian dikonfirmasi dengan penutur asli lainnya. Berdasarkan analisis diperoleh simpulan bahwa adjektiva dalam bahasa Maanyan dapat dikenali dari ciri bentuk atau ciri morfologis yang berupa monomorfemis dan polimorfemis, dari perilaku sintaksis, yaitu sebagai atribut dalam frasa nomina, dan dari perilaku semantis dengan makna yang mengikutinya. Based on the observation on adjective in Maanyan language, especially in morphological features, adjective behavior in Maanyan language is different from the adjective behavior in other Austronesian languages in general. Different categories of syntactic sentences require different forms of adjectives: with the adjective marker {ma-} or without the marker. This study aims to determine the characteristics of adjectives in Maanyan language based on morphological characteristics, syntactic behavior, and semantic behavior. The data in this study were collected by researcher native speakers of Maanyan language and then confirmed to other native speakers. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that the adjective in Maanyan language can be recognized by the morphological characteristic of monomorphemic and polymorphemic, from its syntactic behavior, ie as attributes in the noun phrase, and from its semantic behavior to the meaning that follows.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Semantic categories of adjectives"

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Fallgren, Per. "Thoughts don't have Colour, do they? : Finding Semantic Categories of Nouns and Adjectives in Text Through Automatic Language Processing." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-138641.

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Not all combinations of nouns and adjectives are possible and some are clearly more fre- quent than other. With this in mind this study aims to construct semantic representations of the two types of parts-of-speech, based on how they occur with each other. By inves- tigating these ideas via automatic natural language processing paradigms the study aims to find evidence for a semantic mutuality between nouns and adjectives, this notion sug- gests that the semantics of a noun can be captured by its corresponding adjectives, and vice versa. Furthermore, a set of proposed categories of adjectives and nouns, based on the ideas of Gärdenfors (2014), is presented that hypothetically are to fall in line with the produced representations. Four evaluation methods were used to analyze the result rang- ing from subjective discussion of nearest neighbours in vector space to accuracy generated from manual annotation. The result provided some evidence for the hypothesis which suggests that further research is of value.
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Boleda, Torrent Gemma. "Automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7587.

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Aquesta tesi tracta l'adquisició automàtica de classes semàntiques per a adjectius. La tesi es basa en dues hipòtesis. La primera, que alguns aspectes de la semàntica dels adjectius no són totalment impredictibles, sinó que corresponen a un conjunt de tipus denotacionals, o classes semàntiques. En conseqüència, els adjectius es poden agrupar en funció de la seva classe semàntica. La segona hipòtesi de treball és que la classe semàntica es reflecteix en més d'un nivell de descripció lingüística. Les interfícies entre morfologia i semàntica i entre sintaxi i semàntica són les que s'exploren en detall a la tesi. <br/><br/>Com que no ens podíem basar en una classificació establerta prèviament, bona part dels esforços van dirigits precisament a definir una classificació adequada. La proposta de classificació s'assoleix mitjançant una metodologia iterativa. Es combinen aproximacions deductives i inductives, cosa que permet evolucionar d'una classificació inicial basada en la bibliografia teòrica a una classificació final que té en compte els resultats empírics dels diversos experiments.<br>Esta tesis versa sobre la adquisición automática de clases semánticas para adjetivos. La tesis se basa en dos hipótesis. La primera, que algunos aspectos de la semántica de los adjetivos no son totalmente impredecibles, sino que corresponden a un conjunto de tipos denotacionales, o clases semánticas. En consecuencia, los adjetivos se pueden agrupar en función de su clase semántica. La segunda hipótesis de trabajo es que la clase semántica se refleja en más de un nivel de descripción lingüística. Las interfaces entre morfología y semántica y entre sintaxis y semántica son las que se exploran en detalle en la tesis. <br/><br/>Dado que no nos podíamos basar en una clasificación establecida previamente, buena parte de los esfuerzos van dirigidos precisamente a definir una clasificación adecuada. La propuesta de clasificación se logra mediante una metodología iterativa. Se combinan aproximaciones deductivas e inductivas, cosa que permite evolucionar de una clasificación inicial basada en la bibliografía teórica a una clasificación final que tiene en cuenta los resultados empíricos de los diversos experimentos.<br>This thesis concerns the automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives. Our work builds on two hypotheses: first, that some aspects of the semantics of adjectives are not totally unpredictable, but correspond to a set of denotational types (semantic classes). Therefore, adjectives can be grouped together according to their semantic class. Second, that the semantic class of an adjective can be traced in more than one linguistic level. In particular, the morphology-semantics and syntax-semantics interfaces are explored for clues that lead to the acquisition of the targeted semantic classes.<br/><br/>Since we could not rely on a previously established classification, a major effort is devoted to defining an adequate classification. The classification proposal is reached through an iterative methodology. By combining deductive and inductive approaches, we evolve from an initial classification based on literature review to a final classification proposal that takes advantage of the insight gained through a set of experiments.
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Kunze, Chris. "Hectic, hippic and hygienic: adjectives in victorian fiction a semantic analysis." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2007. http://d-nb.info/992301564/04.

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Shimotori, Misuzu. "Conceptual Contrasts : A Comparative Semantic Study of Dimensional Adjectives in Japanese and Swedish." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-70217.

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The present study explores the concepts behind Japanese and Swedish dimensional adjectives. The focus is on examining which similarities and differences in the conceptualisation across the two languages exist, if any at all. In order to see how concepts underlying dimensional adjectives are represented in the speaker's minds, data was collected mainly from two word-association tests. The results show that dimensional adjectives are conceptualised and represented differently by speakers of these two languages. The most remarkable difference resulting from the word-association tests is that Japanese participants associate dimensional adjectives mostly with nouns that denote entities the prominent extension of which is aptly described by the stimulus dimensional adjective (e.g. 'long' is associated with 'river'). In Swedish, however, participants associate dimensional adjectives with both adjectives and nouns, and the association patterns and their underlying conceptualisations are thus more diverse (e.g. 'high' is associated with 'building', and 'long' is associated with 'narrow').
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Hartung, Matthias [Verfasser], and Anette [Akademischer Betreuer] Frank. "Distributional Semantic Models of Attribute Meaning in Adjectives and Nouns / Matthias Hartung ; Betreuer: Anette Frank." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1180609360/34.

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Frännhag, Helena. "Interpretive Functions of Adjectives in English : A Cognitive Approach." Doctoral thesis, Centre for Languages and literature, Lund University, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10194.

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This thesis presents a theoretical discussion of meaning creation in general, and interpretive functions of English adjectives in particular. The discussion rests on a dynamic view of meaning and interpretation, according to which there are no fixed linguistics meanings – not even for single lexemes. Instead of symbolising meaning in a more or less static and ‘eternal’ fashion, linguistic items are assumed to effect the creation of meaning and to shape meaning dynamically in the particular communicative event at hand, from some kind of underlying ‘raw material’ (also referred to as purport and schemas). It is suggested that the interpretive functions of linguistic items – that is the effects that such items have in the creation of meaning – may be approached in two main ways, namely from the formal and from the semantic point of view respectively. Effects triggered by the form of a certain item are referred to as formal interpretive functions (FIFs), and effects prompted by the meaning created for the form are referred to as semantic interpretive functions (SIFs). FIFs are claimed to be the same for all items – namely to activate, delimit and shape underlying purport and schemas – whereas SIFs are said to differ between items, and also for one and the same item on different occasions of use. It is furthermore suggested that FIFs affect the creation of meaning for the relevant item itself, whereas SIFs affect the creation of meaning for other items, on any level of conceptual organisation. For instance, a form such as tall typically activates and delimits purport and schemas to do with some kind of extension (notably in space), thereby shaping a basic word meaning tall. The meaning thus created may in turn affect other meaning in the larger context. For instance, tall, as created in default interpretation of a tall man entered the room, affects the meaning of the noun phrase a tall man as a whole, in that it specifies the interpreter’s conception of a certain something that entered a specific room. In this case, the relevant SIF is thus to specify. Other SIFs suggested for adjectives are kind identification, element identification, identity provision and stipulation. The aim of the thesis is two-fold: on the one hand to outline a suggestive theory of meaning creation and interpretive function in general, and, on the other hand, to present a theoretical discussion of adjective functions in particular, with the ultimate goal of providing a general framework from which more specific models for in-depth empirical research can be obtained.
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Rost, Gwyneth Campbell. "Object categories provide semantic representation for 3-year-olds' word learning." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2764.

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Word learning implies learning of both a phonological form and its referent. For nouns, the referent is typically a category of objects, with variability between objects within the category but an overlying similarity that allows them to be categorized together, to function similarly, and to be called by the same label. We hypothesized that by strengthening knowledge of the category of referents a word refers to, we could strengthen learning and use of the word. Three-year old children were provided with elaborated referent category information in the form of multiple exemplars of the referent category. In the first manipulation, children were trained on identical exemplars or variable exemplars. A second manipulation provided children with variable exemplars that had been distributed to support a prototype. Children in the third condition, who were provided with a prototype plus variants, learned words best in expressive and receptive tasks, when tested on trained and untrained items, and at two time points. In a second manipulation, we asked if simultaneous presentation of multiple exemplars leads to better learning of the object label than sequential presentation. Results indicated little difference. We conclude that 3-year-olds learn words best in the presence of variability distributed to highlight both invariant elements of the referent category and those elements that are allowed to vary.
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Prior, Martin Hugh. "Syntactic universals and semantic constraints : statistical and other comparative evidence from the study of verbs and adjectives." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1985. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28975/.

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This study is concerned with the examination of word-order universals and the attempt to explain the diverse statistical patterns by means of a variety of semantic structures. Central to my study is a critique (a) of Hawkins's approach, the Universal Consistency Hypothesis, and its concentration upon apparently exceptionless universals, and (b) the Bartsch-Vennemann approach which breaks down structures generally into OPerator-Operand pairs. In Part I, I introduce a geographically and genetically representative sample of 75 languages, and show that not only are violations to be found to Hawkins's principles of consistency, but that they are statistically predictable. The statistical results are also useful in relating word-order patterns with fusional, agglutinative and isolating morphology: in particular fusion is associated with violations of statistical universals. In Part II, I concentrate on adjectives and verbs and here the patterns of non-exceptionless universals become important: instead of distinguishing intensional and extensional adjectives after Montague, I identify a semantic principle of Adjunction, which includes some intensional adjectives, over and above those adjectives for which an analysis as (intensional) operators is still appropriate. The analysis further suggests that the Bartsch-Vennemann identification of operators and operands is often the reverse of what it should be, especially for genitival and verb-object constructions, and I discuss the implications of this for the verb and its semantic relationship with the subject and object. Finally I consider determiners, tense and focus as operators upon operators, showing why their syntactic behaviour leads to asymmetric statistical patterns.
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Weicker, Merle [Verfasser], Petra [Gutachter] Schulz, and Thomas Ede [Gutachter] Zimmermann. "The role of semantic complexity for the acquisition of adjectives / Merle Weicker ; Gutachter: Petra Schulz, Thomas Ede Zimmermann." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1195601654/34.

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Sibanda, Tawanda Carleton. "Was the patient cured? : understanding semantic categories and their relationship in patient records." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37097.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-107).<br>Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.<br>In this thesis, we detail an approach to extracting key information in medical discharge summaries. Starting with a narrative patient report, we first identify and remove information that compromises privacy (de-identification); next we recognize words and phrases in the text belonging to semantic categories of interest to doctors (semantic category recognition). For disease and symptoms, we determine whether the problem is present, absent, uncertain, or associated with somebody else (assertion classification). Finally, we classify the semantic relationships existing between our categories (semantic relationship classification). Our approach utilizes a series of statistical models that rely heavily on local lexical and syntactic context, and achieve competitive results compared to more complex NLP solutions. We conclude the thesis by presenting the design for the Category and Relationship Extractor (CaRE). CaRE combines our solutions to de-identification, semantic category recognition, assertion classification, and semantic relationship classification into a single application that facilitates the easy extraction of semantic information from medical text.<br>by Tawanda Carleton Sibanda.<br>M.Eng.
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Books on the topic "Semantic categories of adjectives"

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Lexical categories: Verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Adjectives and comparison in English: A semantic study. Longman, 1985.

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Willners, Caroline. Antonyms in context: A corpus-based semantic analysis of Swedish descriptive adjectives. Lund University, 2001.

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Cognitive space and linguistic case: Semantic and syntactic categories in English. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Castillo, Jesús Gerardo Martínez del. An open dimension of meaning: A semantic study of adjectives and their combinations. Universidad de Almería, Servicio de Publicaciones, 1997.

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Diederich, Catherine. Sensory adjectives in the discourse of food: A frame-semantic approach to language and perception. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

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Dupuis, Christine. Release from proactive interference: Do emotional words exhibit the same response as semantic categories? Laurentian University, Department of Psychology, 1995.

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Wellwood, Alexis. The Meaning of More. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804659.001.0001.

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This book re-imagines the compositional semantics of comparative constructions with words like “more”. It argues for a revision of one of the fundamental assumptions of the degree semantics framework as applied to such constructions: that gradable adjectives do not lexicalize measure functions (i.e., mappings from individuals or events to degrees). Instead, the degree morphology itself plays the role of degree introduction. The book begins with a careful study of non-canonical comparatives targeting nouns and verbs, and applies the lessons learned there to those targeting adjectives and adverbs. A primary distinction that the book draws extends the traditional distinction between gradable and non-gradable as applied to the adjectival domain to the distinction between “measurable” and “non-measurable” predicates that crosses lexical categories. The measurable predicates, in addition to the gradable adjectives, include mass noun phrases, plural noun phrases, imperfective verb phrases, and perfective atelic verb phrases. In each of these cases, independent evidence for non-trivial ordering relations on the relevant domains of predication are discussed, and measurability is tied to the accessibility of such orderings. Applying this compositional theory to the core cases and beyond, the book establishes that the selection of measure functions for a given comparative depends entirely on what is measured and compared rather than which expression introduces the measurement
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Lowe, John J. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793571.003.0001.

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This chapter sets out the theoretical and empirical bases of the work. It introduces transitivity as a linguistic concept, as well as the categories of ‘agent noun’ and ‘action noun’. Semantic and syntactic transitivity are distinguished. It introduces Lexical-Functional Grammar, the formal framework in which analysis is provided, as a tool for the full understanding of transitivity. It summarizes the evidence for transitive nouns and adjectives in previous linguistic literature, indicates the types of word that the book will be engaging with, and looks at formal analysis. It introduces the early Indo-Aryan languages, Sanskrit and Pali, and the texts which are used as the basis for this work.
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Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Semantic categories of adjectives"

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Fang, Alex Chengyu, and Jing Cao. "Adjectives and Text Categories." In Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45100-7_7.

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Egg, Markus. "9. Semantic underspecification." In Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives, edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner. De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110626391-009.

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Abdullah, Nabil, and Richard A. Frost. "Adjectives: A Uniform Semantic Approach." In Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11424918_35.

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Bierwisch, Manfred. "1. Semantic features and primes." In Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives, edited by Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner. De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110626391-001.

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Raskin, Victor, and Sergei Nirenburg. "Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives." In Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons. Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0952-1_6.

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Zhu, Yongjun, Dongkyu Jeon, Wooju Kim, et al. "The Dynamic Generation of Refining Categories in Ontology-Based Search." In Semantic Technology. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37996-3_10.

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Caluianu, Daniela. "Transitive adjectives in Japanese." In The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.108.13cal.

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Jiang, Song. "The semantic structures of classifier categories." In The Semantics of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315265483-5.

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Loncomilla, Patricio, Marcelo Saavedra, and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar. "Semantic Object Search Using Semantic Categories and Spatial Relations between Objects." In RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44468-9_45.

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Rowe, Matthew. "Transferring Semantic Categories with Vertex Kernels: Recommendations with SemanticSVD++." In The Semantic Web – ISWC 2014. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11964-9_22.

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Conference papers on the topic "Semantic categories of adjectives"

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Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios, and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Predicting the semantic orientation of adjectives." In the 35th annual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/976909.979640.

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Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios, and Kathleen R. McKeown. "Predicting the semantic orientation of adjectives." In the eighth conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/979617.979640.

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Bick, Eckhard. "A Semantic Ontology of Danish Adjectives." In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Semantics - Long Papers. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/w19-0406.

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Hu, Dan, and Jinglian Gao. "Semantic Genes and the Semantic Composition of Adjectives in Modern Chinese." In 2009 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ialp.2009.61.

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Bertoldi, Anderson, and Rove Chishman. "Improving Legal Ontologies through Semantic Representation of Adjectives." In International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsc.2007.44.

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Bertoldi, Anderson, and Rove Chishman. "Improving Legal Ontologies through Semantic Representation of Adjectives." In International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2007). IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icosc.2007.4338421.

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Ramadhani, Alyza Kemala, and Myrna Laksman-Huntley. "The Semantic Field of Triste Adjectives in French." In 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019). Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.050.

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Vinogradova, Svetlana. "History Of Semantic Development Of Relative Adjectives In English." In International Scientific Conference «Social and Cultural Transformations in the Context of Modern Globalism» dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Turkayev Hassan Vakhitovich. European Publisher, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2020.10.05.154.

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Boleda, Gemma, Toni Badia, and Eloi Batlle. "Acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives from distributional evidence." In the 20th international conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1220355.1220516.

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Gurun, Nurkan Turkdogru, and Hemang N. Sheth. "Sound Quality of Aircraft Cabin for VIP and Business Jets." In ASME 2018 Noise Control and Acoustics Division Session presented at INTERNOISE 2018. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ncad2018-6128.

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This paper aims to identify the attributes that describe aircraft interior noise, determine most important psychoacoustic models that characterize cabin sounds, and construct a prediction model that can be utilized for VIP and business jets to evaluate subjective perception. In the first part, paired comparison listening tests and free verbalization are conducted with expert subjects who experienced VIP and business aircraft flight. The study generated a list of adjective pairs that describe perception of cabin sounds to be used for semantic differential listening tests. Multi-dimensional scaling is performed on paired comparison data. Results showed that subjects’ decisions can be categorized in loudness and annoyance dimensions which are not necessarily linearly associated. The second part of the study is the development of a sound quality prediction model for aircraft cabin. Semantic differential tests are conducted with potential customers. Objective sound quality metrics are correlated to subjective test responses using principal components regression. This model is found to be most effective explaining pleasantness, comfort, and loudness perception. It is intended to be utilized to modify/redesign noise control treatments and sound signature of an aircraft. All listening tests were conducted inside an aircraft cabin simulator considering the influence of visual content.
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Kapelyushnyi, Anatolyi. TRANSFORMATION OF FORMS OF DEGREES OF COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES IN LIVE TELEVISION BROADCASTING. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.50.11105.

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The article analyzes transformation of forms of degrees of comparison of adjectives in live television broadcasting. Particular attention is paid to the specific properties of different forms of degrees of comparison of adjectives. To analyze the peculiarities of their use for errors in speech of television journalists, associated with non-compliance with linguistic norms on ways to avoid these errors, to make appropriate recommendations to television journalists. The main method we use is to observe the speech of live TV journalist, we used during the study methods of comparative analysis of comparison of theoretical positions from the work of individual linguists and journalism sat down as well as texts that sounded in the speech of journalists. Our objective is to trace these transformations and develop a certain attitude towards them in our researches of the language of the media and practicing journalists to support positive trends in the development of the broadcasting on TV and give recommendations for overcoming certain negative trends. Improving the live broadcasting of television journalists, in particular the work on deepening the language skills will contribute to the modernization of some trends in the reasonable expediency of the transformation of certain phenomena, moder­nization of some tendencies concerning the reasonable expedient transformation of separate grammatical phenomena and categories and at braking and in general stopping of processes of transformation of negative unreasonable not expedient. This fully applies primarily to attempts to transform the forms of degrees of comparison of adjectives and this explains importance of the results achieved in these study.
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