In:Term Variation in Specialised Corpora: Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications
Béatrice Daille
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 19] 2017
► pp. 33–65
Chapter 3Conceptualisation of terminological variants
Published online: 7 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.19.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/tlrp.19.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Description of variants
- 3.1.1Organisation of variants
- 3.1.2Mechanisms and linguistic operations
- 3.1.3Properties of variants
- 3.2Denominative variants
- 3.2.1Synonymic substitution
- Morpheme
- Functional word
- Lexical component
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3.2.2Simplification
- Compression
- Lexeme/morpheme substitution
- Composition
- Acronym/initialism
- Reduction
- Morphological reduction
- Lexical reduction
- 3.2.3Exemplification
- Decompression
- Morpheme/lexeme substitution
- Partial back-compounding
- Lexical insertion
- 3.2.4Competing patterns
- 3.2.1Synonymic substitution
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3.3Conceptual variants
- 3.3.1Expansion
- Derivation
- Predication
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Modification
- i.Juxtaposition
- Initial position
- Post-position
- ii.Insertion
- i.Juxtaposition
- 3.3.2Anaphorical reduction
- 3.3.1Expansion
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3.4Linguistic variants
- 3.4.1Graphics and spelling
- Misspelling
- Segmentation
- Space
- Hyphenation
- Normative spelling
- French spelling
- German spelling
- Americain/British spelling
- Writting conventions
- Spelling of complex terms
- 3.4.2Inflection
- 3.4.3Derivation
- 3.4.4Fullback-compounding
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3.4.5Modification
- i.Juxtaposition
- ii.Insertion
- 3.4.6Coordination, disjunction and enumeration
- i.Head coordination
- ii.Coordination of expansion
- 3.4.1Graphics and spelling
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3.5Variants of register
- 3.5.1Variation of scientification/popularisation
- Synonymic substitution
- Anaphorical reduction
- 3.5.2Variants of position
- 3.5.1Variation of scientification/popularisation
- 3.6Borders between categories of variants
- 3.6.1Denominative and linguistic variants
- 3.6.2Denominative and conceptual variants
- 3.6.3Conceptual and linguistic variants
