What is it about?
This study reports on a semantic analysis of a terminology pattern formed by a relational adjective and a noun found in specialized texts written in English and Spanish from the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field. This research is first based on a terminology perspective to later focus on a recurring multi-word lexical unit pattern in which the specialized concept is realized by a relational adjective.
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Why is it important?
The study presents a step forward to previous terminology research. We argue that the semantic analysis of the adjective-noun relationship will help understand the underlying knowledge organization of this ICT subject area. The analysis is approached from the framework of the Generative Lexicon specially focusing on the qualia structure of this recurring multi-word lexical unit pattern.
Perspectives
This semantic study has developed a model which can help understand conceptual relationship between lexical items in a specific syntactic pattern as well as disambiguate these same lexical unit combinations, , generated in the ICT specialized language. This same model may be applied to the understanding of new ICT utterances which may result from a conceptual denominating process for knowledge representation. The semantics relation of the relational adjectives and the nouns has shown that the noun can either be conceptually marked or unmarked whereas the relational adjective conveys relevant specialized information which ultimately adds specific cognitive force to the noun.
López Francisca
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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This page is a summary of: A relational adjective and a noun semantic binding in the specialized language of Information and Communication Technology, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, August 2018, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/resla.15037.lop.
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