Alizée Lombard
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alizée Lombard is involved.
Articles
2023 Regular polysemy and novel word-sense identification The Mental Lexicon 18:1, pp. 94–119 | Article
This study examines speakers’ intuitions about novel word senses created through regular polysemy patterns. We investigate the effect of scalar regularity and lexical figure (metaphor vs. metonymy) on the identification of novel word senses, based on a detection experiment. It is shown that the… read more
2022 Evaluating morphosemantic demotivation through experimental and distributional methods Lingvisticæ Investigationes 45:1, pp. 83–115 | Article
The lexicalization of morphologically complex words, i.e. their inclusion in the lexicon, can involve a loss of semantic compositionality. Such a phenomenon, called demotivation, has been overlooked in both morphological and lexical studies, notably regarding its gradual nature. This paper… read more