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Terminologies, Lexical Hierarchies and other Configurations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vogel, Radek.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brno : Masaryk University, 2016.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Foreign Languages: Linguistics and Literature Studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • List of abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1| Language of science
  • 1 | 1 Science, terminologies and hierarchical lexical sets
  • 1 | 2 The aims, methods and research questions of this study
  • 1 | 3 Occupational varieties and the style of science
  • 1 | 4 Terms and their formation
  • 1 | 5 Semantic and syntactic condensation
  • 2| Lexical units and relations between them
  • 2 | 1 Semantic fields and lexemes
  • 2 | 2 Sense relations seen through predicate calculus
  • 2 | 3 Synonymy
  • 2 | 4 Polysemy and synonymy of terms
  • 2 | 5 Oppositeness and antonymy
  • 2 | 6 Hyponymy
  • 2 | 6 | 1 Inclusion and entailment
  • 2 | 6 | 2 Compatibility, incompatibility, paraphrases and imperfect relations
  • 2 | 6 | 3 Relation between antonymy and hyponymy
  • 2 | 6 | 4 Markedness - general and specific words
  • 3| Lexical hierarchies
  • 3 | 1 Classificatory hierarchies: introduction
  • 3 | 2 Taxonomy
  • 3 | 2 | 1 Properties of taxonomy
  • 3 | 2 | 2 Natural and nominal kind hyponyms
  • 3 | 2 | 3 Taxonomic overspecification and underspecification
  • 3 | 3 Meronomy
  • 3 | 3 | 1 Meronyms and holonyms
  • 3 | 3 | 2 Transitivity vs. intransitivity of meronymy
  • 3 | 4 Relation between taxonomy and meronomy
  • 3 | 5 Relations similar to the part-whole relation
  • 3 | 6 Proportional series as non-hierarchical configurations
  • 3 | 6 | 1 Open vs. closed, consistent vs. inconsistent series
  • 3 | 6 | 2 Endonyms, exonyms, analogues and lexical siblings
  • 3 | 6 | 3 Paronymy
  • 3 | 7 Non-branching lexical hierarchies
  • 3 | 7 | 1 Derivation of non-branching hierarchies
  • 3 | 7 | 2 Non-lexicalised branching and non-branching hierarchies
  • 3 | 7 | 3 Scalar non-branching hierarchies
  • 3 | 7 | 4 Chains vs. cycles/helices
  • 4| Biological taxonomy
  • 4 | 1 The principles of binomial nomenclature and biological taxonomy.
  • 4 | 2 Representation of evolution in tree diagrams
  • 4 | 3 Botanical taxonomic system and its taxonyms
  • 4 | 4 Zoological taxonomic system and its taxonyms
  • 4 | 5 Taxonymic inconsistencies: synonymy and polysemy
  • 4 | 5 | 1 Terminological synonymy
  • 4 | 5 | 2 Terminological polysemy
  • 5| Lexical hierarchies in the nomenclature of economics
  • 5 | 1 Lexical sources of the language of economics
  • 5 | 2 Lexico-semantic properties of the financial and accounting terminology
  • 5 | 3 Taxonymic inconsistencies in the language of economics: polysemy and synonymy
  • 5 | 4 Lexical hierarchies in economics, finance and accounting
  • 6| Lexical hierarchies in natural vs. social sciences
  • 6 | 1 Natural vs. artificial classifications
  • 6 | 1 | 1 Properties of taxons at higher levels
  • 6 | 1 | 2 Polysemy of vernacular generic names
  • 6 | 1 | 3 Other social hierarchies: military ranks
  • 6 | 2 Term-formation-its sources, means and processes
  • 6 | 3 Nomenclatures in the vertical perspective
  • 6 | 4 Principles of term-formation at the horizontal level
  • 6 | 4 | 1 Co-hyponyms in biological taxonomies
  • 6 | 4 | 2 Co-hyponyms in the lexical hierarchies of accounting and finance
  • 7| Properties of lexical hierarchies in biology and in economics: synthesis and conclusions
  • References
  • Summary
  • Zusammenfassung
  • Shrnutí
  • Name index
  • Subject Index.

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