Language & Information Lab.

Word Formation as a Structuring Device

of the English and Italian Lexicons:

A Large-Scale Exploration

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General Information

The project Word Formation as a Structuring Device of the English and Italian Lexicons: A Large-Scale Exploration is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the period 1 July 2000 - 30 June 2002. It is a joint project of the Universität Basel and the Università della Svizzera Italiana, carried out within the general framework of Word Manager and coordinated by Pius ten Hacken. It started with an introductory workshop, which took place 10-14 July 2000 in Lugano. On this site, the PowerPoint presentations by Pius ten Hacken can be viewed.

Workshop: Slide Presentations

Organizational issues of the project and the workshop.

General information about Word Manager:

Monday Bow-tie model; client-server architecture; development stages; compilation
Wednesday Views: server and interface; exporting and importing entries
Friday History of Word Manager; current state and place of the present project

Introduction to morphology:

Monday Lexemes and text words; stems and formatives; inflection classes
Tuesday Non-concatenative processes: orthographic adaptation, sandhi
Wednesday Inflection vs. word formation; derivation
Thursday (1) Compounding, synthetic compounding, neoclassical word formation
Thursday (2) Productivity, lexical specialization
Friday Lexemes and meaning distinctions; loanwords and word formation; clitics and multi-word compounds

Introduction to the Word Manager formalism:

 
Monday Formatives, features, IRules, lexeme browser
Tuesday The inflection window, spelling rules
Wednesday WFRules for derivation, word formation window, spelling rules, lexeme browser
Thursday WFRules for conversion and compounding, spelling rules with "value", some other special cases

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23-Aug-2000    Pius ten Hacken