Functionally salient features in the semantics of lexical items

• Authors: Budnikova, Alyona

Title variants

EN

Cechy funkcjonalnie wyraziste w semantyce jednostek leksykalnych

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present research is to work out and test a model of lexical meaning in terms of the functional salience of its constituents, i.e. the frequency of profiling of semantic features in different aspects of word functioning: as an element in the language system (paradigmatic salience), in context (syntagmatic salience), and in the formation of derived units (derivational salience). These parameters, viewed as objective criteria to assess feature weights, are used to reconstruct the organization of semantic features in the meanings of some common English animal names.

PL

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest wypracowanie i przetestowanie modelu znaczenia leksykalnego odnośnie wyrazistości funkcjonalnej składników, tzn. częstotliwości profilowania cech semantycznych w różnych aspektach funkcjonowania słowa: jako element w systemie języka (wyrazistość paradygmatyczna), w kontekście (wyrazistość syntagmatyczna) oraz w tworzeniu jednostek derywacyjnych (wyrazistość derywacyjna). Elementy te – postrzegane jako obiektywne kryteria do oceny ważności cech – używane są do rekonstrukcji organizacji cech semantycznych znaczeń powszechnie występujących nazw zwierząt w języku angielskim.

Keywords

EN

functional salience; lexical meaning; feature weights; profiling; wyrazistość funkcjonalna; znaczenie leksykalne; ważność cechy; profilowanie; nazwy zwierząt

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: Białostockie Archiwum Językowe
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Budnikova, Alyona

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/4656

DOI

10.15290/baj.2015.15.06