The role of constituents in multiword expressions

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Multiword expressions (MWEs), such as noun compounds (e.g. nickname in English, and Ohrwurm in German), complex verbs (e.g. give up in English, and aufgeben in German) and idioms (e.g. break the ice in English, and das Eis brechen in German), may be interpreted literally but often undergo meaning shifts with respect to their constituents. Theoretical, psycholinguistic as well as computational linguistic research remain puzzled by when and how MWEs receive literal vs. meaning-shifted interpretations, what the contributions of the MWE constituents are to the degree of semantic transparency (i.e., meaning compositionality) of the MWE, and how literal vs. meaning-shifted MWEs are processed and computed. This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary selection of seven papers on recent findings across linguistic, psycholinguistic, corpus-based and computational research fields and perspectives, discussing the interaction of constituent properties and MWE meanings, and how MWE constituents contribute to the processing and representation of MWEs. The collection is based on a workshop at the 2017 annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) that took place at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany

Autorenportrait

Sabine Schulte im Walde is Associate Professor at the Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart. She performed her Master studies at the Universities of Stuttgart and Edinburgh and received her PhD in Computational Linguistics in 2003 from the University of Stuttgart and her Habilitation from Saarland University in 2009. From 2003-2004 she worked for the lexicographer Duden in Mannheim, and from 2011-2016 she was a Heisenberg Fellow. Her work applies statistical methods to lexical-semantic phenomena, with a focus on the linguistic and cognitive plausibility of thecomputational approaches. The topics of her research include theautomatic induction of semantic classifications and semanticrelations; compositionality and meaning shifts of multi-wordexpressions; synchronic and diachronic ambiguity and figurativelanguage usage; and the evaluation of corpus-based semantic knowledge.

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