Essays about: "semantic primes and universals"

Found 2 essays containing the words semantic primes and universals.

  1. 1. Tracking Linguistic Primitives: The Phonosemantic Realization of Fundamental Oppositional Pairs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Niklas Johansson; [2014]
    Keywords : phonosemantics; sound symbolism; iconicity; non-arbitratiness; semantic typology; phonetic typology; universals; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how cross-linguistic phoneme distributions of 56 fundamental oppositional concepts can reveal semantic relationships by looking into the linguistic forms of 75 genetically and areally distributed languages. Based on proposals of semantic primes (Goddard 2002), reduced Swadesh lists (Holman et al. READ MORE

  3. 2. 'Consider' and its Swedish equivalents in relation to machine translation

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation och information

    Author : Karin Andersson; [2007]
    Keywords : ’consider’; semantic primes and universals; conceptual semantics; mental spaces; WordNet; FrameNet; machine translation;

    Abstract : This study describes the English verb ’consider’ and the characteristics of some of its senses. An investigation of this kind may be useful, since a machine translation program, SYSTRAN, has invariably translated ’consider’ with the Swedish verbs ’betrakta’ (Eng: ’view’, regard’) and ’anse’ (Eng: ’regard’). READ MORE