Lexical Semantics for Terminology: An introduction

Lexical Semantics for Terminology
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Typographical conventions
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Why apply lexical semantics in terminology?
Chapter 2. Terminology
	2.1 The knowledge paradigm
		2.2 Storing and accessing concepts and terms
			2.3 The knowledge paradigm from a linguistic point of view
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 3. Lexical semantics for terminology
	3.1 A basic illustrative example
		3.1.1 Meaning versus concept
			3.1.2 Dealing with lexical units that belong to different parts of speech
				3.1.3 Making (fine-grained) semantic distinctions
				3.1.4 Taking into consideration relations between terms
				3.1.5 Considering the combinatorics of terms
				3.1.6 Considering the syntactic behavior of terms
			3.2 Corpus and terminology
			3.3 Some relevant frameworks for terminology
				3.3.1 Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology
				3.3.2 Frame Semantics
			3.4 Questions that lexical semantics cannot answer
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 4. What is a term?
	4.1 Identification of terms
		4.1.1 Relationship with a subject field
			4.1.2 The importance of the application
				4.1.3 Can proper nouns be terms?
				4.1.4 Different parts of speech
				4.1.5 Single-word items versus multiword expressions
				4.1.6 Different names for the same thing
			4.2 Different approaches to the ‘term’
			4.3 Terms as lexical units
			4.4 Criteria for selecting terms
			4.5 Applying term identification criteria to a specific domain
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 5. Concepts, meaning and polysemy
	5.1 Knowledge-based approaches to linguistic content
		5.1.1 Dealing with multiple concepts
			5.1.2 Accounting for concepts in terminological resources
				5.1.3 Explaining concepts
				5.1.4 An alternative view on concepts
				5.1.5 Multidimensionality
				5.1.6 Other factors affecting the way concepts are delimited or defined
			5.2 Lexicon-based approaches to linguistic content
				5.2.1 Terms in the lexicon of a language
				5.2.2 Criteria for semantic distinctions
				5.2.3 Polysemy versus ambiguity
				5.2.4 Dealing with multiple meanings
				5.2.5 Meaning modulations
				5.2.6 Handling complicated cases: absorb and absorption
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 6. Predicative terms, participants and arguments
	6.1 Predicative terms and other kinds of terms
		6.2 Defining the argument structure of a predicative term
			6.3 Quasi-predicative terms
			6.4 Argument structures in specialized versus general language
			6.5 Representing predicative and quasi-predicative terms
			6.6 Argument structure and semantically related terms
			6.7 Argument structure and syntax
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 7. Relations between concepts and terms
	7.1 Conceptual relations and conceptual structures: A matter of classification
		7.1.1 The backbone of a conceptual structure: The taxonomy
			7.1.2 Partitive relations
				7.1.3 Conceptual synonymy
				7.1.4 Opposition as a conceptual relation
				7.1.5 Other conceptual relations
			7.2 Terminological relations
				7.2.1 Paradigmatic versus syntagmatic relations
				7.2.2 Paradigmatic relations
					7.2.2.1 Hypernymy and hyponymy
						7.2.2.2 Synonymy
						7.2.2.3 Antonymy and other opposites
						7.2.2.4 Paradigmatic relations across different parts of speech
				7.2.3 Syntagmatic relations
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 8. Discovering structures in specialized domains
	8.1 Structures based on conceptual relations
		8.1.1 Accounting and representing conceptual relations
			8.1.2 Handling relations in conceptual structures
				8.1.3 Linking conceptual structures and definitions
			8.2 Structures based on terminological relations
				8.2.1 Lexical functions to unveil the terminological structure
					8.2.1.1 The workings of lexical functions
						8.2.1.2 Lexical functions for terminology
						8.2.1.3 Exploring terminological relations with “softer” versions of lexical functions
						8.2.1.4 Further classifying relations
						8.2.1.5 Definitions based on terminological structures
						8.2.1.6 Translations of collocations
				8.2.2 Semantic frames to discover different kinds of structures
					8.2.2.1 Obtaining a better view of related situations with frames
						8.2.2.2 Highlighting differences between specialized and general knowledge
						8.2.2.3 Capturing meaning modulations and different conceptualizations within the same domain
			Summary
			Further reading
Chapter 9. Equivalence in terminology
	9.1 Conceptual equivalence
		9.2 Terminological equivalence
			9.3 Problems when establishing equivalence
				9.3.1 Non-equivalence
				9.3.2 Partial equivalence
				9.3.3 Structural divergences
			9.4 Equivalence in running text
			Summary
			Further reading
References
Corpus examples references
Index