Evaluating morphosemantic demotivation through experimental and distributional methods
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- Lombard, Alizée ORCID Université de Fribourg
- Wauquier, Marine ORCID Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Fabre, Cécile ORCID Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
- Hathout, Nabil ORCID Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
- Ho-Dac, Lydia-Mai ORCID Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
- Huyghe, Richard ORCID Université de Fribourg
- 05.12.2022
Published in:
- Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources. - John Benjamins Publishing Company. - 2022, vol. 45, no. 1, p. 83-115
English
The lexicalization of morphologically complex words, i.e. their inclusion in the lexicon, can involve a loss of semantic compositionality. Such a phenomenon, called demotivation, has been overlooked in both morphological and lexical studies, notably regarding its gradual nature. This paper compares two measures of demotivation based on experimental and distributional semantics approaches. It builds on the evaluation of 78 pairs of French verbs and derived nouns selected to represent three levels of demotivation. The comparison of the two approaches using speakers’ judgements and word vector similarity indicates convergence on the identification of demotivation degrees within a continuum, while also highlighting specific aspects of each method. The study provides direction to further research on morphosemantic demotivation, bridging together semantic, morphological and methodological considerations
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de français
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Language, linguistics
- License
- License undefined
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1075/li.00068.wau
- ISSN 0378-4169
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/323035
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