German Verbal-Nominal Phrases (stehen, stellen, schließen, fassen + Nomen) through the Prism of Conceptual Schemes

Conceptual Spaces and Ontological Semantics. Compositionality in Nominal Phrases

Introduction This paper is concerned with reconciling the views of two prominent schools of meaning ascription: Logical compositional semantics in the Montague tradition, characterized by a reduction to set-theoretic constructs, and the cognitive semantics tradition as embodied in Gärdenfors’ conceptual spaces. This is achieved by adapting model-theoretic, Fregean compositional semantics to an ...

Post-nominal genitives and prepositional phrases in German: a uniform analysis

Predicting the Components of German Nominal Compounds

Word prediction systems (such as those embedded in most current augmentative and alternative communication systems) aim to predict what a user wants to type next on the basis of corpus-extracted n-gram counts. Good performance of such a system depends crucially on the size and quality of the underlying lexicon. Compounding is a common cross-linguistic mean to form complex words. In German as in...

Hamlet and Hamletism through the prism of the creativity of M. Lermontov and A. Blok

The author of the article aims to explain world literature through such concepts as the concept of Hamletism and the character of Hamlet in relation to selected works of Russian Romanticism, in particular, the beginning of realism and symbolism as an outstanding current of the Silver Age. Subject of a careful comparative analysis is the works of Mikhail Lermontov ("Demon" and "Ma...

Automatic Proofreading Of Frozen Phrases In German

["rozen phrases are introduced as a new level of automatic proofieadiltg in between the stm,dard level of spelling verification tfl ist)lated words and tile levcl of grammar checking. The design and the iulplenlentatioll of a corresponding proofleading system are described in detail.