Browsing by Author "Koskela, Anu"
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Coats and bras and jeans – and clothes, too: Lexical contrast between hyperonyms and hyponyms
Koskela, Anu (Article)A special case of lexical contrast involves contrasting a hyperonym and a hyponym (as in clothes and socks), leading to the narrowing of the hyperonym’s sense. However, not all hyperonym/hyponym pairs are amenable to ... -
Identification of homonyms in different types of dictionaries
Koskela, Anu (Book chapter)Homonyms are generally defined as distinct lexical items that happen to share an identical form but whose senses are etymologically or semantically unrelated (e.g. tattoo1 ‘ink mark on skin’ / tattoo2 ‘military drum ... -
Inclusion, contrast and polysemy in dictionaries: The relationship between theory, language use and lexicographic practice
Koskela, Anu (Article)This paper explores the lexicographic representation of a type of polysemy that arises when the meaning of one lexical item can either include or contrast with the meaning of another, as in the case of dog/bitch, shoe/boot, ... -
Key Terms in Semantics
Murphy, M. Lynne; Koskela, Anu (Book)Key Terms in Semantics explains the all the terms and concepts in semantics which students on linguistics and language studies course are likely to encounter during their undergraduate study. The book is organized ... -
Metonymy, category broadening and narrowing, and vertical polysemy
Koskela, Anu (Book chapter)This chapter examines the relationship between metonymy and cases of category broadening and narrowing and the resulting state of vertical polysemy (e.g., cat ‘domestic cat’ > ‘any feline’ and drink ‘consume liquid’ > ... -
Shoes, boots and vertical polysemes: The dynamic construal and conventionality of word senses
Koskela, Anu (Article)This paper considers lexical items such as 'shoe', whose meaning can be construed more broadly or narrowly (i.e., as either including or excluding boots), and examines how this type of “vertical” meaning variation relates ... -
Signals of Contrastiveness: But, Oppositeness, and Formal Similarity in Parallel Contexts
Murphy, M. Lynne; Jones, Steven; Koskela, Anu (Article)By examining contexts in which “emergent” oppositions appear, we consider the relative contribution of formal parallelism, connective type, and semantic relation (considered as an indicator of relative semantic parallelism) ...