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A Synergetic Linguistic Study on Compounding Propensity in technical English

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Published/Copyright: July 15, 2014
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Glottotheory
From the journal Glottotheory Volume 2 Issue 2

Abstract

This paper investigates the compounding propensity in technical English by the Theory of Synergetic Linguistics. It focuses on the dependence of compound number on the properties of length, frequency and polylexy of word stems. A technical English corpus JDEST was used and a set of Visual Foxpro programs were specifically written for processing the corpus and obtaining the data automatically. The results confirm the respective hypotheses of dependence and show that the more frequent and polysemous a word stem, the more compounds it produces, but the shorter a word stem, the more frequently it occurs in compounds. Köhler’s model y = axb captures this propensity.

Keywords : Synergetic Linguistics; compounding propensity; syllabic word length; frequency; polylexy
Published Online: 2014-7-15
Published in Print: 2009-12-1

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https://doi.org/10.1515/glot-2009-0020
Keywords for this article
Synergetic Linguistics; compounding propensity; syllabic word length; frequency; polylexy

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