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Disentangling lexical hierarchies.

VOGEL, Radek

Basic information

Original name

Disentangling lexical hierarchies.

Authors

Edition

1. vyd. Brno, Brno Seminar on Linguistic Studies in English: Proceedings 2005. Spisy Pedagogické fakulty. p. 125-136, 12 pp. 2005

Publisher

Nakladatelství Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, 2005

Other information

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

ISBN

80-210-3916-7

Keywords in English

lexical hierarchies; terminological hierarchies; nomenclature; taxonomy; meronomy; botanical taxonomy; accounting terminology
Změněno: 30/11/2006 12:08, Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The paper focuses on the lexical structure of English terminological hierarchies and attempts to uncover the principles determining their formation, the sense relations between their component parts and their correspondence to analogous hierarchies in Czech and Latin. It may be assumed that scientific terminological hierarchies in different languages are very similar as far as their structure is concerned. The objective reality and relationships between concepts which they reflect are in principal identical. However, the morphological, lexical and onomatological properties of different languages influence strongly the consistency and transparency of lexical hierarchies. A comparison is made between the taxonomies and meronomies in natural (biology) and social sciences (economics), since their nomenclatures are highly fixed and efforts have been made to standardise the hierarchies internationally.

In English

The paper focuses on the lexical structure of English terminological hierarchies and attempts to uncover the principles determining their formation, the sense relations between their component parts and their correspondence to analogous hierarchies in Czech and Latin. It may be assumed that scientific terminological hierarchies in different languages are very similar as far as their structure is concerned. The objective reality and relationships between concepts which they reflect are in principal identical. However, the morphological, lexical and onomatological properties of different languages influence strongly the consistency and transparency of lexical hierarchies. A comparison is made between the taxonomies and meronomies in natural (biology) and social sciences (economics), since their nomenclatures are highly fixed and efforts have been made to standardise the hierarchies internationally.