[Lexicog] semantics

[Mike Maxwell]

There was a posting yesterday in the Corpora-List which referred to a
term that I had not run across before, 'semantic prosody'.  The notion
is that some words collocate not just with particular other words ('arm'
and 'akimbo'), but with semantic classes of words ('career' tends to
collate with words that have a positive sense, whereas 'job' exhibits no
such tendency).

I suspect this is a largely unexplored area of lexicography, although I
could just be ignorant.  At any rate, one of the msgs in that list gave
a link to a recent on-line thesis by Mike Nelson (Sea Hunt, anyone?)
which studied business English.  Not one of my favorite subjects, but
chapter 4 of the thesis surveys a number of concepts that may be of
interest to this list, including semantic prosody, collocation,
colligation (another new term to me), and multi-word items.

The URL is http://www.kielikanava.com/thesis.html.
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	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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