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

[Michael Zock]

Sorry to say this, you guys make finally linguistics becoming fun

Keep going

Michael

Le 28/01/11 18:44, Justin Washtell a écrit :
> The clamour for domain names, and an inability to use spaces therein has created a few examples like this in English.
>
> I recall the unfortunate case of"penisland"... supposedly intended as "pen"+"island". A quick root around on Google [pause] unearths some other gems; "expertsexchange" and "powergenitalia" have got to be favourites. I can't vouch that any of these are genuine. They certainly don't seem to exist any longer.
>
> Justin Washtell
> University of Leeds
>
> ________________________________________
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of Yorick Wilks [Y.Wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk]
> Sent: 28 January 2011 17:10
> To: Oliver Mason
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> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science
>
> German is more fun than English isnt it because of its different compositionality habits--as in the immortal "Nachtraum":
>
> = nach+Traum (after a dream)
> or
> = Nacht+Raum (night space)
>
> YW
>
>
> On 28 Jan 2011, at 11:59, Oliver Mason wrote:
>
>> An example from German: Vollzug (as seen on a station in Munich).
>>
>> Either: full-length train (as opposed to 'Teilzug', a shorter train -
>> this was the intended meaning)
>> Or: Execution of sentences (eg 'Justizvollzug', enforcing of prison sentences)
>>
>> Oliver
>>
>>
>> On 28 January 2011 13:35, James Vanden Bosch<VAND at calvin.edu>  wrote:
>>> Moral holiday? Pathetic fallacy?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> James Vanden Bosch
>>> Professor of English
>>> Department of English
>>> 1795 Knollcrest Circle SE
>>> Calvin College
>>> Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4404
>>>
>>> Tel.: (616) 526-6592
>>> Fax: (616) 526-8508
>>> vand at calvin.edu
>>>
>>>>>> "Magnar Brekke"<Magnar.Brekke at nhh.no>  1/28/2011 6:28 AM>>>
>>> My particular favorite was provided by BBC Radio 4 many years ago:
>>> "a mentally retarded services director"
>>>
>>> Magnar Brekke
>>> NHH-em.
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>>> Fra: corpora-bounces at uib.no på vegne av Justin Washtell
>>> Sendt: fr 28.01.2011 11:41
>>> Til: David Wible; John Williams
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>>> Nice example! :-)
>>>
>>> Justin Washtell
>>> University of Leeds
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of David
>>> Wible [wible at stringnet.org]
>>> Sent: 28 January 2011 09:17
>>> To: John Williams
>>> Cc: Corpora at uib.no
>>> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Moving Lexical Semantics from Alchemy to Science
>>>
>>> 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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> ... P.S. Anyone have some other ambiguous open compounds they are familiar
>>> with, besides 'solar system'?
>>>
>>> 'golf club' springs to mind
>>>
>>> j0hn
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> John Williams
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>>> School of Languages and Area Studies
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>>
>> --
>> Dr Oliver Mason
>> Technical Director of the Centre for Corpus Research
>> Head of Postgraduate Studies (Doctoral Research)
>> School of English, Drama, and ACS
>> The University of Birmingham
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