English clippings and their source words: A constructional perspective

La 3^ème conférence du laboratoire CRISCO de l’année 2023-2024 aura lieu le jeudi 25 janvier, à 14h, dans l‘amphithéâtre De Boüard, bâtiment B.

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Martin HILPERT (professeur à l’université de Neuchâtel)

This paper uses corpus data and methods of distributional semantics in order to study English clippings such as dorm (< dormitory), memo (< memorandum), or quake (< earthquake). We investigate whether systematic meaning differences between clippings and their source words can be detected. Alber and Lappe (2012: 314) observe that semantic questions have received relatively little attention in the study of clippings, and they remark that systematic studies of meaning in truncatory processes are virtually absent. The present paper tries to address that gap.
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