THE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL AND SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN TERMINOLOGICAL WORD COMBINATIONS IN A SPECIALIZED TEXT IN ENGLISH AND ALBANIAN
THE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL AND SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN TERMINOLOGICAL WORD COMBINATIONS IN A SPECIALIZED TEXT IN ENGLISH AND ALBANIAN

Summary/Abstract: While the investigation of the grammatical relations in terminological word combinations (mainly compound nominal forms) is an easy linguistic process where the terminologist, based on the constituent elements, can determine the most common patterns which act as a main-building block in a specialized text, the examination of semantic relations is not well-researched and presents a challenge regarding the types of conceptual and semantic relations used. To this end, the terminologist has to look beyond the most common generic-specific and part-whole relations to examine the wider range of semantic relations which are domain-specific and which display the most generic categories of concepts, because specialized word combinations, unlike common words and phrases, tend to repeat themselves throughout a domain-specific text, and they tend to conform to a common set of templates. The best way of taking stock of these specialized knowledge units is by studying their behaviour in a given text through the method of extraction, in which case each word combination extracted will be analyzed and grouped based on its most common forms of grammatical and semantic relations.

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