A typology of lexical borrowing in Modern Standard Chinese

A Typology of Lexical Analogy in WordNet

Analogy and metaphor are extremely knowledge-hungry processes, so one should question whether lightweight lexical ontologies like WordNet are sufficiently rich to support them. In this paper we argue that resources like WordNet are suited to the processing of certain kinds of lexical analogies and metaphors, for which we propose a spatially-motivated typology and a corresponding computational m...

Aralex: a lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic.

In this article, we present a new lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic: Aralex. Based on a contemporary text corpus of 40 million words, Aralex provides information about (1) the token frequencies of roots and word patterns, (2) the type frequency, or family size, of roots and word patterns, and (3) the frequency of bigrams, trigrams in orthographic forms, roots, and word patterns. Arale...

Aralex: A lexical database for Modern Standard Arabic

Psycholinguistic databases, providing statistical information such as word frequency, length, and imageability, have proved to be invaluable tools for the experimental investigation of the cognitive processes underlying language functions and for the design of language assessment tools for both educational and clinical purposes (Lété, Sprenger-Charolles, & Colé, 2004; Stadthagen-Gonzalez & Davi...

Morphosyntactic Complexity: a Typology of Lexical Splits

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...