TY - BOOK ID - 32981782 TI - The semantic transparency of English compound nouns PY - 2018 SN - 3961100306 3961100314 9783961100309 9783961100316 PB - Language Science Press DB - UniCat KW - Inglés KW - English language KW - Noun. KW - Semantics. KW - Semasiology KW - Nominals KW - English language Semantics KW - Semantics KW - Germanic languages KW - Linguistics KW - Noun KW - Synonym ring KW - Transparency (linguistic) KW - WordNet UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32981782 AB - What is semantic transparency, why is it important, and which factors play a role in its assessment? This work approaches these questions by investigating English compound nouns. The first part of the book gives an overview of semantic transparency in the analysis of compound nouns, discussing its role in models of morphological processing and differentiating it from related notions. After a chapter on the semantic analysis of complex nominals, it closes with a chapter on previous attempts to model semantic transparency. The second part introduces new empirical work on semantic transparency, introducing two different sets of statistical models for compound transparency. In particular, two semantic factors were explored: the semantic relations holding between compound constituents and the role of different readings of the constituents and the whole compound, operationalized in terms of meaning shifts and in terms of the distribution of specifc readings across constituent families. ER -