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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Continuity in the Interactions Between Linguistic Units

Authors : Gilles Col, Rossana De Angelis, Thierry Poibeau

Published in: Language in Complexity

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Abstract

We investigate the notions of continuity and interaction in linguistic models. There is now a quite rich tradition of work based on the hypothesis that natural language is not a discrete model. Instead, continuous models consider word sense, grammar rules and categories as continuous notions: some words are hard to categorize and some rules do not fully apply in certain contexts. Word meaning in context often corresponds to different meanings according to the dictionary. New models have been proposed that provide a more accurate view of these phenomena. Recent advances in natural language processing also support this idea by providing very rich models based on a multi-level representation of the context of use of linguistic items. We describe how these models provide an interesting convergence between linguistic and computational models.

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Footnotes
1
«Il n’y a dans la langue ni signes [dans le sens de “signifiants”—N.d.A.], ni significations, mais des différences de signes et des différences de significations: lesquelles 1° n’existent les unes absolument que par les autres, (dans les deux sens), et sont donc inséparables et solidaires; mais 2° n’arrivent à se correspondre directement» (de Saussure 2002: 70). Cf. also CLG, Part II, Chap. III, IV».
 
2
The simplest way to avoid answering the question is to consider the text as a sign. This solution is chosen by Pierce as well as Greimas and Eco (cf Eco 1988, p. 32: “le Message équivaut au Signe”). Yet, this solution pays little attention to the different levels of complexity characterizing signs and texts, and above all it prevents conceptualizing the impact of the global on the local, i.e. of the text on the signs (Rastier 1997).
 
3
Weinrich adopts the classical communicative model proposed by Shannon and Weaver (1949).
 
4
Cf. in the text by Eco (1979), from Schmidt (1976: 56): «un lessema si può concepire teoricamente come una regola (in senso ampio) o un’istruzione per la produzione di un dato “comportamento” verbale e/o non verbale… Il campo-contesto [il campo lessematico] assegna al lessema le sue possibilità generali di funzionamento nei testi».
 
5
In most studies, over has a temporal meaning in this kind of examples but it should be discussed if this is necessary, since the temporal meaning is mostly supported by the noun following over.
 
6
We do not describe the full processing of this nominal complex but various elements at different levels like the morpheme (-s) or prepositions (of) are to be distinguished.
 
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Metadata
Title
Continuity in the Interactions Between Linguistic Units
Authors
Gilles Col
Rossana De Angelis
Thierry Poibeau
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Language in Complexity

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-29481-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-29483-4

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29483-4_2

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