[Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science

[Krishnamurthy, Ramesh]

Hi all

a) Surely any multi-word item involving at least one polysemous element would be a candidate?
e.g. civil service [service = an act or an organization]

b) Or indeed, any pair of words, as they have the potential to engage in a variety of case relationships?
e.g. walking stick



c) Then there's the problem of segmentation/sequence, i.e. "(a+b) + c" or "a + (b+c)"?

e.g. hot water tap

Best
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Lecturer in English Studies, School of Languages and Social Sciences,
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812 ; Fax: +44 (0)121-204-3766 [Room NX08, 10th
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http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr/
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:43:45 +0000

From: Justin Washtell <lec3jrw at leeds.ac.uk<mailto:lec3jrw at leeds.ac.uk>>

Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to

      Science

To: David Wible <wible at stringnet.org<mailto:wible at stringnet.org>>, John Williams

      <j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com<mailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com>>

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Ancient history teachers.

Or, a little tenuously, comprehensive ancient history teachers.



Justin Washtell

University of Leeds

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How about 'heavy metal fans'?



David





On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:57 PM, John Williams <j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com<mailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com<mailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com%3cmailto:j0hnwh0ever.corpora at gmail.com>>> wrote:





... P.S. Anyone have some other ambiguous open compounds they are familiar with, besides 'solar system'?



'golf club' springs to mind



j0hn





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John Williams

Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics

School of Languages and Area Studies

PK 2.18, University of Portsmouth

Portsmouth PO1 2DZ

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