TY  - UNPD
A1  - Ultan, Russell
T1  - Descriptivity grading of finnish body-part terms
N2  - Three quantificational approaches to the measurement of lexical descriptivity are proposed, based on: the semantic sum of the parts of a lexeme is equal to the whole, paraphrase-term and term-paraphrase congruence, explicitness of semantic elements of a construction. Combination of all possible values into tripartite sets and then into equipollent groups results in a system composed of 12 grades. This system was tested with a semantic domain of the Finnish lexicon: body-part terms. The descriptivity indices for each lexical item were correlated with natural divisions of the body, construction-motivation types (form, function, location), grammatical construction types (endo- and exocentric compounds, derived forms, metaphors), and loanwords. These comparisons result in a number of grade profiles whereby specific descriptivity grades are characteristically associated with one or more types of body section, construction motivation, and grammatical construction. Diachronic and synchronic evidence points overwhelmingly to a process of semantic narrowing in the development of descriptive words and labels from phrases or sentences.
T3  - Arbeiten des Kölner Universalien-Projekts : akup - 16 
KW  - Finnisch
KW  - Körperteil
KW  - Deskriptivität
Y1  - 1975
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/25115
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-251154
IS  - Juni 1975
PB  - Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln
CY  - Köln
ER  -