Speakers
Michael Nguyen
Peter Juel Henrichsen
Description
We present a study of Danish multiword constructions containing one or more hyphens, such as gas- og vandmester (‘gas- and water.repairman’; ‘plumber’), ilt- og brintatomer (‘oxygen- and hydrogen atoms’) and haveborde og –stole (‘garden tables and -chairs’). Although materially analogous, such constructions exhibit different semantics, falling – as we shall argue – into two distinct groups (“locum” vs. “pseudo locum” hyphen constructions). This study employs the COR1 database and draws on the CLINK formal framework for computational lexicography. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis of such multiword expressions with rich internal semantics can benefit from methods of computational lexicography – and vice versa.
