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
Homework discussion
6.1.1
Frequency and scales
6.1.2
How extreme are the differences?
6.2
Metaphor and quantitative evidence
6.2.1
Coding
6.3
Metaphor and Cognition
6.3.1
Time is space
6.4
Exploring color metaphors
7
Metonymy
8
Synonymy
9
Antonymy
10
Lexical Patterns
11
Lexical Bundles
12
Constructions
13
Final Discussion
Appendix
Why discord?
How it was made
References
Summer Semester 2020
Freie Universität Berlin
© Alexander Rauhut
Metaphor
6.4
Exploring color metaphors
Brainstorming …
Form groups, discuss metaphorical uses of color terms.
Identify common metaphorical mappings.
Gather structures, e.g. collocations, adjective-noun compounds, that are likely to be metaphorical
(Explore those structures in corpus data.)