Levels of Linguistic Analysis II
Lexical Semantics
Welcome
Syllabus
Contact and Links
Weekly Workflow
How to set up
1
Introduction and Organization
1.1
Organization
1.1.1
Course Requirements
1.1.2
Structure and Materials
1.2
Aims
1.2.1
Linguistic and academic skills
1.2.2
Skills that go beyond linguistics
1.2.3
Soft skills for Teachers
1.3
Feedback
1.4
Homework
1.4.1
Tip
2
Word Classes
2.1
Intro
2.1.1
More organizational updates
2.1.2
Homework discussion
2.2
Parts of speech
2.2.1
Recap: Open and Closed Word Classes
2.2.2
PoS-Tags
2.3
Types and Tokens
2.3.1
Word boundaries
2.3.2
Word classes in numbers
2.3.3
Considerations
2.4
Outlook
2.5
Homework
2.5.1
Task
2.5.2
Tip of the day
3
The Lexicon
3.1
Intro
3.1.1
Organizational notes
3.1.2
Recap
3.2
Lexemes and lexical fields
3.2.1
Lemma
3.2.2
Distribution
3.2.3
Association
3.3
Frequency and memory
3.3.1
Common and uncommon vowels
3.3.2
Confounding variables
3.4
Homework
3.4.1
Presentations
3.4.2
Task
3.4.3
Tip of the day
4
Categorization
4.1
Intro
4.1.1
Recap
4.2
Models
4.2.1
Simplify, Generalize, Apply
4.2.2
Some Linguistic Models
4.2.3
Short and long vowels
4.2.4
Voiced and voiceless consonants
4.2.5
Expanding the model
4.2.6
Different models for different purposes
5
Collocation
5.1
Homework
5.1.1
Task
5.1.2
Tip of the day
6
Metaphor
6.1
Metaphor and quantitative evidence
6.1.1
Coding
6.1.2
Homework discussion
6.1.3
Frequency and scales
6.1.4
Frequency and scales
6.1.5
How extreme are the differences?
6.2
Metaphor and Cognition
6.2.1
Time is space
6.2.2
Exploring color metaphors
6.3
Homework
6.3.1
Tip of the day
7
Metonymy
7.1
Group 1: Exploration, or ‘get off my Amazon’
7.2
Group 2 and 3, or ‘comparing Apples to Mangos’
7.3
Group 4, or ‘How many are Greenpeace anyway?’
8
Synonymy
8.1
The same meaning and function
8.2
Principle of no synonymy
8.2.1
Dative alternation
8.3
Homework
8.3.1
Tip of the Day
9
Antonymy
9.1
How do antonyms emerge?
9.2
Causal relationships
10
Lexical Patterns
10.1
Multi word patterns
10.1.1
From collocations to syntactic patterns
10.1.2
Lexical variability
10.2
Multiple levels of generalization
10.2.1
Competing motivations
10.3
Homework
10.3.1
Tiwilbemba
11
Lexical Bundles
11.1
Examples from the seminar
11.2
Prefabricated Chunks
11.3
Prefabs and the lexicon
11.4
Discourse markers
11.5
Common Functions
11.6
Homework
11.6.1
Tip of the day
12
Constructions
13
Final Discussion
14
Term paper guide
14.1
How to hand in
14.2
What makes a good term paper
14.3
Form
14.3.1
Requirements
14.3.2
Typography
14.3.3
Structure
14.3.4
Appendix
14.3.5
Declaration
Appendix
Academic posters
Layout
Programs
Command line tricks
14.3.6
The shell
14.3.7
Copy & Paste
14.3.8
Colors
14.3.9
Eastereggs
Why discord?
References
Summer Semester 2020
Freie Universität Berlin
© Alexander Rauhut
Lexical Bundles
11.4
Discourse markers
A large subset of linguistic structures exist for purposes other than exchanging information
on the one hand
after all
for the first time
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