Quantitative lexical classifiers: A taxonomy proposal
The present paper proposes a taxonomy of Serbo-Croatian quantitative lexical classifi ers (words like sheet, as in a sheet of paper or bag as in a bag of potatoes). Based on the database of quantitative lexical classifiers extracted from the six-volume Matica Srpska Dictionary and a survey...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Južnoslovenski Filolog |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2019/0350-185X1901007S.pdf |
| Summary: | The present paper proposes a taxonomy of Serbo-Croatian quantitative lexical
classifi ers (words like sheet, as in a sheet of paper or bag as in a bag of
potatoes). Based on the database of quantitative lexical classifiers
extracted from the six-volume Matica Srpska Dictionary and a survey of
native speakers, the author identifies the following binary oppositions:
dividing/uniting, internal/external, resultative/non-resultative,
quantitative/non-quantitative, countable/uncountable, shaping/non-shaping,
categorizing/non-categorizing, and metaphorical/non-metaphorical. The top
tier of the taxonomy is based on the opposition between dividing and
uniting, its second level on the opposition between internal and external
divisors and unifiers. All other oppositions are deployed at the third
level of taxonomy. The taxonomy is intended as a contribution to further
exploring Serbo-Croatian quantitative lexical classifiers and concurrently
as a tool of their more efficient lexicographic and second language
acquisition treatment. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-185X 2406-0763 |