A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names
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Orsolya Vincze
Abstract
This paper proposes a multilevel representation of personal names, which makes a clear distinction between ontological information, described in a person database, and different levels of linguistic representation of personal names. Adopting the linguistic model and formalisms provided within the Meaning ⇔ Text framework, it is argued that, contrary to other proper names (e.g. names of organizations, toponyms, etc.), which should be treated similarly to idioms, personal name strings such as José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero should not be represented as single units in any linguistic level, nor in the lexicon. Variant forms referring to a concrete person (e.g. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Rodríguez Zapatero, Zapatero, ZP) are accounted for by a set of rules connecting the person database and the semantic level representation of the personal name.
Abstract
This paper proposes a multilevel representation of personal names, which makes a clear distinction between ontological information, described in a person database, and different levels of linguistic representation of personal names. Adopting the linguistic model and formalisms provided within the Meaning ⇔ Text framework, it is argued that, contrary to other proper names (e.g. names of organizations, toponyms, etc.), which should be treated similarly to idioms, personal name strings such as José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero should not be represented as single units in any linguistic level, nor in the lexicon. Variant forms referring to a concrete person (e.g. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Rodríguez Zapatero, Zapatero, ZP) are accounted for by a set of rules connecting the person database and the semantic level representation of the personal name.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Authors vii
- Foreword ix
- Dependency in Language 1
- Delimitation of information between grammatical rules and lexicon 33
- Sentence structure and discourse structure 53
- The Copenhagen Dependency Treebank (CDT) 75
- Creating a dependency syntactic treebank 99
- A proposal for a multilevel linguistic representation of Spanish personal names 119
- Coordination of verbal dependents in Old French 141
- Dependency annotation of coordination for learner language 161
- The dependency distance hypothesis for bilingual code-switching 183
- Dependencies over prosodic boundary tones in spontaneous spoken Hebrew 207
- Clitics in dependency morphology 229
- On the word order of Actor and Patient in Czech 253
- Type 2 Rising 273
- Wh-copying in German as replacement 299
- Representation of zero and dummy subject pronouns within multi-strata dependency framework 325
- Index 347
