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Lexicology and Lexicography

Objectives

Development of skills in the areas of Lexicology and Lexicography that allow students to comprehend the
function and relevance of the Lexicon within the Grammar, understand the nature and complexity of lexical
properties and know the existent theories and models for their
representation. Particularly, students should be able to:
a) understand the concepts of Lexicology and Lexicography and the relation established between them;
b) describe/modelize lexical units from Portuguese;
c) acquire and use methodologies for lexicographic edition and for building lexical resources.

General characterization

Code

711131054

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Sílvia Pais Barbosa

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

NA

Bibliography

  • Amaro, R. & Mendes, S. (2013), Tecnologias de Informação Linguística para Tradução. Ed. revista e atualizada, 200 pp.( capítulo II).
  • Chaves, R. P. (2013), Organização do Léxico. In Raposo, E. et al. (orgs.) Gramática do Português. Lisboa: FCG, pp.185-2014.
  • Fellbaum, C. (ed.)1998. WordNet: An Electronic LexicalDatabase. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press
  • Hanks, P. 2003. Lexicography, in: Mitkov, R. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 4869.
  • Peters, Wim, (s.d.), Lexical Resources, NLP group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. In http://phobos.cs.unibuc.ro/roric/lex_introduction.html
  • Verdelho, T. & J. P.Silvestre, (ed.), 2007. Dicionarística Portuguesa. Inventariação e estudo do património lexicográfico. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro. ISBN 978-972-789-234-1

Teaching method

Theoretical and practical classes and tutorial guidance, with resource to case studies and practical application of
the acquired knowledge, including: i) topic presentation and explanation by the teacher; ii) discussion and analytic
analysis of relevant literature on the addressed topics; iii) description and modeling of lexical units in different
lexicographic contexts.

Evaluation method

Continuous assessment - Attendance and Participation(5%), Individual and/or Group Work(35%), Written Test(60%)

Subject matter

8. Syllabus:
1. Introduction: Lexicology and Lexicography
1.1 Object of study: the lexicon
1.2 Definition of word and of lexical unit
1.3 Caracterization and definition of word classes
2. The Lexicon and the natural of lexical knowledge
2.1 Lexical unit and meaning
2.2 Establishment and definition of meaning
2.3 Lexicon organization
2.4 Neologisms
3. Contemporary Lexicography
3.1 Issues of modern lexicography
3.2 Informational content and strategies
3.2.1 Nomenclature
3.3.2 Macro and microstructure
3.3.3 Definitions
4. Lexical resources
4.1 Dictionary design and editing: Lexonomy
4.1.1 Writing dictionary entries
4.2 Wordnets
4.2.1 Introduction to lexical network editors
4.2.2 Structuring and building a wordnet