The term word assaciation is used in a very particular sense in the psycholinguistic literature. (Generally speaking, subjects respond quicker than normal to the word "nurse" if it follows a highly associated word such as "doctor.") We wilt extend the term to provide the basis for a statistical description of a variety of interesting linguistic phenomena, ranging from semantic relations of the ...

A computational vehicle for lexicography was designed to keep to the constraints of meaningtext theory: sets of lexical correlates, limits on the form of definitions, and argument relations similar to lexical-functional grA--~-r. Relational data bases look like a natural framework for this. But linguists operate with a nonnormalized view. Mappings between semantic actants and grammatical relati...

This article describes the design of a computational system for the development and maintenance of inflected lexica, developed as part of the Open Source Lexical Information Network (OLSIN). The system is built as a tool for lexicographers, and is flexible enough for the lexicographers to deal with any irregularities in the language, and transparent enough for the lexicographers to understand t...

This article examines the existing lexicographical evidence for rare Irish word eclas, typically translated as ‘stomach’ or ‘gizzard’, and presents some hitherto unnoticed attestations of this term from a large collection medical remedies preserved in two sixteenth-century manuscripts. The new data allow better insights into historical phonology morphology OIr. eclas its Breton cognate elas, ma...