[Corpora-List] What are the terms used for sentence-, paragraph- and text-level analysis?

[Matías Guzmán]

I wasn't referring to that, I was only making fun of the fact that there is
little agreement in terminology in most linguistic areas. What an author
names X and other will name Y and so on. Even corpus linguistic has its
problems, not too long ago we had a looong discussion about what a corpus
was. I actually believe we need a more unified terminology, and have
nothing against using fancy words.

Matías Guzmán Naranjo


2013/2/20 Alon Lischinsky <alischinsky at gmail.com>

> On 2013/2/20 Matías Guzmán <mortem.dei at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>The question remains why do we need "fancy" expressions at all?
> >
> > Because linguistics can't possibly afford to have a clear and unified
> > terminology
>
> Whatever the value of that argument in general, it's certainly not
> applicable to this case: as far as I know, ‘lemma’ is the
> universally-used term for canonical (in lexicography), uninflected
> forms (in morphology and computational linguistics). You don't get
> much more unified than that.
>
> As for clarity, I've never seen what's wrong with having a term of art
> for a concept that doesn't have an unambiguous correlate in everyday
> usage. ‘Word’ wouldn't work in this case, since the point of ‘lemma’
> is grouping various inflected word-forms under a common heading. In
> fact, employing the everyday term can be a source of considerable
> confusion between the lay and the specialised meaning (as Arnold
> Zwicky has pointed out regarding ‘grammar’
> [http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/its-all-grammar/] and
> Geoffrey Pullum regarding ‘passive’
> [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922]).
>
> A.
>
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