Semantic Extension Research Articles

Deprecatory Ethnonyms: The Case of Bozgor

Abstract In this study, we wish to debate upon some aspects regarding the lexical and semantic implications of ethnonyms. We aim to analyse the origin and semantics of one of two lexemes used by Romanians to refer to Hungarians: bozgor. Besides a meta-analysis of the term (its emergence, meaning), we also refer to archaic usages and meanings (buzguroi, bozga, bozga, bâzga, etc.). We discard previous theories regarding the meaning and origin of the lexeme. Bozgor is a word that is considered an instance of verbal abuse, mockery, or insult, which displays a significant amount of collectively formed, pejorative connotation. Our hypothesis is that it comes from the Hungarian bodza, in its archaic form and meaning (‘border forest’). Bozgor in its earlier versions came to designate, through semantic extension, ‘inhabitant of the border forest’, ‘Hungarian’. The associative meanings which led to the emergence of its present pejorative status (as an ethnic slur) appeared later. The roots we analyse in the article all share a common denominator of meaning and all have led to a large number of words related to the semantic field of forest both in Romanian and in Hungarian.

Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction

This study focuses on the metaphorical semantic extension of Hausa visual and auditory perception verbs as portrayed in romance fiction. Hausa language, just like any other language, provides a window into how speakers use language to make sense of the world around them. The study examines how language users attribute abstract concepts, such as thinking and understanding, to sensory experiences of seeing and hearing, drawing on the conceptual metaphor theory. The study analysed a corpus of Hausa romance fiction, focusing on the use of perception verbs and the metaphorical extensions they evoke. A qualitative research approach was employed, and literary texts were selected as the primary data source. The text data were extracted using the AntConc programme, and such data were then analysed using a cognitive semantics analytical framework. The study’s findings indicated that verbs of higher intellect, such as “understand” and “think”, are derived from hearing and vision, respectively. These metaphorical extensions are closely related to cultural beliefs and norms, emphasising the importance of visual and auditory cues in human relationships. This article provides insights into how language and culture intersect in using perception verbs in Hausa romance fiction texts and demonstrates the importance of understanding metaphorical extensions in studying language and culture.

Attentional semantics of deictic locatives

Since Bühler’s influential work on context-dependent, deictic expressions, much research has been devoted to the underlying concepts and cross-linguistic variation of linguistic deixis. Focussing on the semantics of deictic locatives like here and there, the present article starts with an overview of deictic theories and phenomena. It is shown that proposals which either utilize the semantic idea of abstract pointing from some reference point (origin, ground), or the pragmatic concept of joint attention, do not explain the data sufficiently. As an alternative, specific parts of Takubo’s theory of deixis are then combined with an attentional semantics according to which “selective attention” plays an essential role in cognition and for language. It is argued that deictics as description-lean terms rather express basic aspects of attentional reference to an entity of some (cognitive) domain than specific content related to pointing or anchoring. Finally, further aspects and possible extensions of the novel attentional semantics of deictics are discussed.

Verbs of sexual intercourse in the Greek Pentateuch: a lexical analysis

AbstractThis article examines the neglected evidence of the Greek Pentateuch for verbs of sexual intercourse. I aim to demonstrate the translators’ skilful application of their mimetic translation method and the native-speaker competence suggested by their vocabulary choices in the relevant sphere. With one exception manifesting Hebrew interference through semantic extension, all the verbs deployed to describe sexual intercourse represent natural Greek usage and are found in classical literature going back in some cases to early epic. This provides yet another indication that the evidence of the Septuagint should no longer be dismissed when considering the post-classical development of the Greek language.

The polysemic meaning chain of the genitive case in Polish

Summary The Polish genitive case is explored from the point of view of its proposed polysemy. We adopt the view that the genitive represents an instance of structured polysemy (Nikiforidou 1991). Like Nikiforidou, we reject the opinion that the genitive instantiates accidental homonymy or shows general single meaning. Our analysis demonstrates that several meanings we identified are intricately tied to each other. There are two prototypical meanings with their several semantic extensions, the latter departing from the former. Contrary to Nikiforidou’s proposal of the genitive as a “radial category” (Lakoff 1987), we support an alternative model. In our view, structured polysemy found in the genitive is better handled by a model referred to as the “meaning chain” (Taylor 1988). Some of the meanings identified are motivated by other meanings in the chain, without directly relying on some semantic centre. Our description of the Polish genitive sheds new light on the holistic semantics of this category with allegedly only grammatical meaning.

Russian equivalents of the English over

Abstract The article deals with a comparative analysis of the English over and the Russian language items that serve as its approximate translation equivalents. The main attention is on such Russian equivalents of over as the prepositional phrases nad with the instrumental case, čerez with the accusative case, za with the accusative case and po with the dative case, as well as the prefixes pere- and pro-. The research is undertaken using the Cognitive linguistic framework or, more precisely, the theory of conceptual metaphor. The aim of the article is to analyse the Russian language means of coding the spatial relations that are similar to those expressed by the English over and to trace patterns of extension of spatial meanings into non-spatial domains in these languages. The study reveals that although English is an analytic language and Russian is a synthetic (fusional) language and, therefore, they use different means to express meanings, similar conceptual-metaphorical motivations of semantic extensions can be traced in both languages.

한·중 냉각 형용사 대조 연구

Objectives The purpose of this study was to illuminate the semantic extension patterns of cooling adjectives in Korean and Chinese through a comparative study focusing on the Korean words ‘차다’, ‘차갑다’, ‘시리다’, ‘쌀쌀하다’, ‘서늘하다’, ‘싸늘하다’, and the Chinese word ‘涼’.
 Methods In this study, the definitions and characteristics of the original meanings, extended meanings, metaphor, and metonymy were first summarized. Then, a comparative analysis of the dictionary meanings of cooling adjectives in Korean and Chinese was conducted. Through this process, distinctions were made between the original meanings and extended meanings of these adjectives. Subsequently, corpus data were used to analyze the patterns of semantic extension of cooling adjectives in Korean and Chinese.
 Results The extended meanings of the Chinese word ‘涼’ and the Korean words ‘차다’, ‘차갑다’, ‘시리다’, ‘쌀쌀하다’, ‘싸늘하다’, and ‘서늘하다’ were found to encompass both similar and completely distinct meanings. However, the most important observation was that even when there are similar meanings, there are significant differences in the extension paths. The extension paths of the character 涼 mainly focus on abstract semantic extensions, and the verb ‘차다’ reveals not only abstract semantic extensions but also sensory extensions. Furthermore, when comparing the extended meanings of 涼 and ‘차갑다’, ‘쌀쌀하다’, ‘서늘하다’, and ‘싸늘하다’, it can be observed that while they share some similar extended meanings, the extension paths of ‘차갑다’, ‘쌀쌀하다’, ‘서늘하다’, and ‘싸늘하다’ are relatively diverse. Lastly, it can be confirmed that there is no similar meaning in the extended meanings of 涼 and ‘시리다’, and from the perspective of extension paths, both words share the commonality of extensions related to ‘state’ and ‘abstract entity’. Additionally, the Chinese character 涼 has additional extension paths related to ‘body parts’ and ‘area (space)’.
 Conclusions This study is meaningful in that when making sentences using adjectives for cold , the vocabulary is accurately selected and used by referring to the expansion path of the extended meaning of Korean and Chinese adjectives for cold.

Specific features of the narrative structure in L. N. Tolstoy’s story "The Forged Coupon" (to the 195th anniversary of the birth)

The subject of the study is "The Forged Coupon", one of the later stories by L. N. Tolstoy. The article considers how Tolstoy’s main discoveries are implemented in the text from the standpoint of constructing a literary narrative. The article presents the novella from the perspective of the writer’s creative mastery evolution. The research employed end-to-end text sampling, semasiological analysis based on lexicographic sources, subtext explication techniques. The study also used psycholinguistic approaches to examine the emotional pattern of the text. The ideological plane of the content is interpreted by identifying key words (heuristemes). The article characterises the dynamics of the narration pace, the nature of the development of the compositional plot lines. It also reveals fragments of a convoluted, compressed narrative and compositional parts based on precedent texts. The study demonstrates L. N. Tolstoy’s techniques for semantic extension of vocabulary and attaching additional connotations to the usual meanings of lexemes. In addition, the paper characterises the forms of syntactic constructions and a special kind of Tolstoy’s tale (or skaz), as well as reveals the semantic charge of foreign inclusions. The research shows the continuity between the mature and late Tolstoy’s style in highlighting a significant artistic detail, embodying the inconsistency of human thinking and emotional states. The article evaluates the influence of the late Tolstoy’s style on the formation of artistic and literary aesthetics of the 20th century.

Polyfunctionality of ‘Give’ in Hui Varieties of Chinese: A Typological and Areal Perspective

The morpheme ‘give’ is among the most well-studied lexical items in the realm of grammaticalization. This study sets out to provide a typological and areal analysis of the distinct forms and multiple functions of ‘give’ in 27 varieties of Hui Chinese, a lesser-known group of Sinitic languages. Making use of both primary and secondary data, we have identified ten different functions of GIVE, namely (i) lexical verb ‘give’, (ii) recipient marker ‘to’, (iii) benefactive marker ‘for’, (iv) purpose marker, (v) permissive marker, (vi) passive marker, (vii) pretransitive disposal marker, (viii) allative marker, (ix) locative marker ‘at/in’, and (x) temporal marker ‘till’. The Hui varieties covered in this study generally showcase the syncretism of a minimum of five of the functions above simultaneously. Semantic extension, polygrammaticalization, and cooptation are shown to be the major mechanisms behind the polyfunctionality or polysemy sharing of the morpheme ‘give’. Our study contributes to the understanding of the role that grammaticalization, especially contact-induced grammaticalization, plays in forming linguistic areas. In addition, it casts doubt on the basicness of ‘give’ in assessing the genetic relatedness of languages in the world.

Examining the Differences between Neologisms and Spelling Errors on Social Media

Neologisms and spelling errors are common features of social media and have contributed immensely to easing information dissemination in today?s world. The advent of the internet has enabled linguistic advancement, linguistic oddities, and communication. As an evolving phenomenon, language grants its users the liberty to use it as it suits them to convey their varied messages. The global language monitor in Austin calculated that a neologism is created every 98 minutes, while a spelling error occurs in every five posts on social media. This paper aims to examine the differences between neologisms and spelling errors. This work's theoretical framework is anchored on-Mediated Communication, Geoffrey Leech?s theory of linguistic deviations, morphological processes of word formation, and Pitt Coder?s theory of Error Analysis. The paper retrieved its data from status updates and comments on various social media platforms. The findings indicate that neologisms are formed by morphological processes such as blending, clipping, shortening, semantic extension, and acronyms and abbreviations, while spelling errors are formed by erroneous patterns of addition, selection, and omission . The paper concludes that neologisms and spelling errors are distinctive linguistic entities. While some neologisms may have been accepted as dictionary entries, spelling errors are outright blunders and linguistic oddities. As such, they can never be accepted as standard forms of communication.

An effective overlapping community merging method oriented to multidimensional attribute social networks

AbstractFor multidimensional attribute social networks, most of the existing methods have limitations in dealing with community redundancy, namely, the influences of the network's multidimensional attributes and users' interest preferences are ignored in the process of community merging. To this end, we propose an effective overlapping community merging method (EOCMM) oriented to multidimensional attribute social networks. In EOCMM, we focus on two core problems which are how to improve the method of improving overlapping community detection in multidimensional attribute social networks and how to merge the detected communities with high redundancy degree. To solve the first problem, based on the network topology characteristics and user interest preference, the Node Domain index is proposed to improve and optimize the selection of seed nodes. The traditional overlapping community detection method is improved by semantic fitness function and seed nodes. To solve the second problem, we merge the communities with high redundancy degree by Semantic Community Overlapping Degree which is fused by user similarity, community similarity and community tightness. Finally, we compared our method with other multiple mainstream methods by extensive experiments on three real social network datasets. The experimental comparison results show that the improvements on three evaluation metrics extension of modularity, partition density and semantic extension of modularity are 6.04%, 7.96% and 3.13%, respectively. And our method can make the results of community detection and merging more reasonable and effective.

Managing Complex Knowledge in Sustainable Planning: A Semantic-Based Model for Multiagent Water-Related Concepts

The concepts of green infrastructures, nature-based solutions and ecosystem services are today considered an integral part of the broader theme of the urban bioregion, with an intrinsic character of complexity. It is certainly difficult to structure bioregional processes in a balanced and sustainable way, able to keep local energy production and consumption cycles closed. It is a complex issue of knowledge bases, and problems are increased by the participatory dimension of environmental planning. In fact, when rational planning models have failed in the face of prominent individual needs and environmental complexity, a path has emerged towards the inclusion of multiple citizens’ and stakeholders’ knowledge. The cognitive structure of the plans has thus changed from systems of exclusively expert, formal knowledge to systems of diffused, multi-agent knowledge. This has involved richness but also significant problems in understanding and managing knowledge bases. In this complexity, there are some common peculiarities when it comes to socio-environmental systems. A common feature of the reference domains of ecosystem services, nature-based solutions and green infrastructures is the water resource. A management model of hydrological data, which are structurally relevant and cross-sectoral in environmental planning actions, could represent a flagship initiative. The used approach could be conveyed to more complex and extensive areas of the environmental domain in a perspective of sustainable planning. The present paper is part of a research work oriented toward handling complex environmental subjects, such as green infrastructures, nature-based solutions or ecosystem services, with a knowledge modelling approach. This approach is based on semantic extensions, elaborated form the concept of semantic web, to allow shared interpretations of knowledge coming from different languages and scientific domains. It is also based on using applied ontologies, elaborated from the concept of ontology-based classification, to support a structured organization of knowledge contents. The main research objective is therefore to investigate about a knowledge management system with semantic extensions, populated with hydrological knowledge contents, as well as to propose a preliminary functional architecture. A simple ontology of data is extracted, aiming at clarifying and improving inter-domain communication, so as to enhance a common semantic understanding in a complex environmental system.

The Syntax and Semantics of the Double-faced Prepositions besides and beyond

Over time, lexical items are recycled and take on different or additional meanings from the ones they originally had. Somewhat surprisingly, items may take on converse meanings. This is the case with the prepositions besides and beyond, which may signal either inclusion or exclusion, depending on the context. An etymological examination shows that over time, both words have undergone semantic extension from their original spatial meanings. Syntactically, the primary functions of the two are as prepositions and adverbs. Quantitative results show that while nowadays beyond functions primarily as a preposition, besides functions equally often as an adverb and a preposition. The converse meanings of besides and beyond are shown here to depend on whether the context is assertive or non-assertive. Both words form part of a large group of prepositions of inclusion and exclusion which share both semantic and syntactic features. Syntactically, what is remarkable about all of them is their ability to occur not only with nominal complements but also with that-clauses, bare infinitives, and adjective phrases. One of the issues discussed in this article is what is the best syntactic analysis of these structures.

Simple querying service for OpenAPI descriptions with semantic extensions

We introduce OpenAPI Query Language 2 (OAQL2), an SQL-like language for querying OpenAPI documents. OpenAPI is a standard format for the description of REST services, based on JSON (or YAML). A Web service capable of executing OAQL2 queries is implemented. The service stores metadata for each OpenAPI document and executes the queries on metadata to avoid the overhead of expensive join operations. It builds indexes to speed up queries, handles composite schema objects, and uses reasoning to support searching on semantic models referred to by OpenAPI properties. The run-time performance of OAQL2 has been assessed experimentally on a large database of 10,000 real service descriptions downloaded from SwaggerHub. Compared to the system implemented in our previous work, OAQL2 is proven to be faster and more complete in terms of syntax and compatibility with OpenAPI. To the best of our knowledge, there is nothing similar to SQL for OpenAPI. All other query methods are not designed for OpenAPI and require the user to be familiar with the peculiarities of OpenAPI syntax. This results in long complicated queries.

A Semantically Enhanced Knowledge Discovery Method for Knowledge Graph Based on Adjacency Fuzzy Predicates Reasoning

Discover the deep semantics from the massively structured data in knowledge graph and provide reasonable explanations are a series of important foundational research issues of artificial intelligence. However, the deep semantics hidden between entities in knowledge graph cannot be well expressed. Moreover, considering many predicates express fuzzy relationships, the existing reasoning methods cannot effectively deal with these fuzzy semantics and interpret the corresponding reasoning process. To counter the above problems, in this article, a new interpretable reasoning schema is proposed by introducing fuzzy theory. The presented method focuses on analyzing the fuzzy semantic between related entities in a knowledge graph. By annotating the fuzzy semantic features of adjacency predicates, a novel semantic reasoning model is designed to realize the fuzzy semantic extension over knowledge graph. The evaluation, based on both visualization and query experiments, shows that this proposal has advantages over the initial knowledge graph and can discover more valid semantic information.

Hainan Li Brocade Patterns in the Design of Food and Beverage Brand Regeneration and Application of Research

To study the artistic characteristics of Li brocade patterns, to realize the fusion of traditional Li brocade patterns with current aesthetics, and to apply them to modern restaurant brand design. Based on the lack of innovation in Li brocade culture, we analyze and study the representative animal patterns of Li brocade, sort out the artistic characteristics of Li brocade patterns, and extract design innovations in terms of innovation and re-creation of basic elements, symbiosis and extension of semantics, and inheritance and application of culture. Combined with modern people's values and aesthetic way of thinking, it is applied to restaurant brand design.

Temporal Truth and Bivalence: an Anachronistic Formal Approach to Aristotle’s De Interpretatione 9

Regarding the famous Sea Battle Argument, which Aristotle presents in De Interpretatione 9, there has never been a general agreement not only about its correctness but also, and mainly, about what the argument really is. According to the most natural reading of the chapter, the argument appeals to a temporal concept of truth and concludes that not every statement is always either true or false. However, many of Aristotle’s followers and commentators have not adopted this reading. I believe that it has faced so much resistance for reasons of hermeneutic charity: denying the law of universal bivalence seems to be overly disruptive to logical orthodoxy – the kind of logical orthodoxy represented by what we now call classical propositional logic, much of which Aristotle clearly supports in many texts. I intend to show that the logical-semantic theses that the traditional reading finds in De Interpretatione 9 are much more conservative than they may seem to be at first glance. First, I will show that they complement, and do not contradict in any way, the orthodox definitions of the concepts of truth and statement that Aristotle advances in other texts. Second, by resorting in an anachronistic vein to concepts and methods peculiar to contemporary logic, I will show that a trivalent modal semantics conforming to those theses can be built for a standard formal language of the classical propositional calculus. It is remarkable that reasonable concepts of logical truth and logical consequence that may be defined on the basis of this trivalent modal semantics are coextensive with their orthodox counterparts, the concepts of tautology and tautological consequence of classical bivalent and extensional semantics.

Integrating a new knowledge organisation system for monoclonal antibodies for therapeutic use authorised in Europe into HeTOP terminology-ontology server

Monoclonal antibodies (MAs) are increasingly used in the therapeutic arsenal. Clinical Data Warehouses (CDWs) offer unprecedented opportunities for research on real-word data. The objective of this work is to develop a knowledge organization system on MAs for therapeutic use (MATUs) applicable in Europe to query CDWs from a multi-terminology server (HeTOP). After expert consensus, three main health thesauri were selected: the MeSH thesaurus, the National Cancer Institute thesaurus (NCIt) and the SNOMED CT. These thesauri contain 1,723 MAs concepts, but only 99 (5.7 %) are identified as MATUs.The knowledge organisation system proposed in this article is a six-level hierarchical system according to their main therapeutic target. It includes 193 different concepts organised in a cross lingual terminology server, which will allow the inclusion of semantic extensions. Ninety nine (51.3 %) MATUs concepts and 94 (48.7 %) hierarchical concepts composed the knowledge organisation system. Two separates groups (an expert group and a validation group) carried out the selection, creation and validation processes.Queries identify, for unstructured data, 83 out of 99 (83.8 %) MATUs corresponding to 45,262 patients, 347,035 hospital stays and 427,544 health documents, and for structured data, 61 out of 99 (61.6 %) MATUs corresponding to 9,218 patients, 59,643 hospital stays and 104,737 hospital prescriptions. The volume of data in the CDW demonstrated the potential for using these data in clinical research, although not all MATUs are present in the CDW (16 missing for unstructured data and 38 for structured data).The knowledge organisation system proposed here improves the understanding of MATUs, the quality of queries and helps clinical researchers retrieve relevant medical information. The use of this model in CDW allows for the rapid identification of a large number of patients and health documents, either directly by a MATU of interest (e.g. Rituximab) but also by searching for parent concepts (e.g. Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody).

CASE-SSE: Context-Aware Semantically Extensible Searchable Symmetric Encryption for Encrypted Cloud Data

Traditional searchable symmetric encryption (SSE) schemes rarely support context-aware semantic extension, and then lead to the searched results being incomplete or deviating from the user’s query intention. To address this problem, a new context-aware semantically extensible searchable symmetric encryption based on Word2vec model (CASE-SSE) is proposed to achieve context-aware semantic extension in this article. The proposed scheme utilizes outsourced datasets as corpora to extract all keywords for training the Word2vec model, and the trained results is the ontology knowledge base that can be used to extend the semantics of query keywords directly. Further, to facilitate multi-keyword search using the extended query vector, we use the <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$k$</tex-math></inline-formula> -means clustering algorithm to classify outsourced datasets. We then construct an AVL-tree index and an inverted index based on the classified results, thereby achieving efficient context-aware semantically extensible SSE. The security analysis indicates it is secure and effective. The experimental results show that our scheme is superior in both efficiency and accuracy.

The Semantic Extension of Dimensional Adjectives from Space” to “Time” -Focusing on “nagai” and “tooi”-

This study examined the process of dimensional adjectives extending their meaning from “space” to “time.” Among dimensional adjectives, “nagai” and “tooi” are the only ones in which mapping between the domains of “space” and “time” has been identified. If we look up the meanings of these two adjectives related to “time” in the dictionary, it says “a big time distance.” Thus, we cannot distinguish the difference in meaning. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the polysemous structure of “nagai” and reveal to which the semantic difference of these two adjectives in “time” is attributed.BR This study has found that “nagai” has been extending its meaning from the prototype meaning of “very distant physically and continuously from beginning to end” metaphorically to the meaning of “time” through a schema of “very distant continuously.” This author compared “nagai” and “tooi” in terms of “time” semantically based on the results and learned there was difference in the semantic features of “Vektor