Drzewo słów. O słowniku The Wordtree® H. G. Burgera
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This is a review article of the work by Henry G. Burger The Wordtre«®.
The Wordtree is a dictionary-thesaurus published in 1984. It is an attempt at
defining the lexicon of processes expressed by English transitive verbs.
Burger provides information concerning different types of sense relations in
each entry. The most challenging part refers to the conceptual analysis of
lexical items. Burger applies the binary componential method and tries to define
each verbal concept in terms of two sub-parts, one - indicating its cause,
the other - its effect. Although the enterprise is unprecedented in its
scale, it underrepresents the meaning of lexical items. Also while his binary
selections seem convincing for the nodes higher in the hierarchy, they are
more arbitrary for the lower ones.
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