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Ida Raffaelli

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences [Filozofski fakultet], Department of Linguistics, Faculty Member

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Professor of Linguistics at Faculty of Humantiies and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb)Research interests: semantics, cognitive linguistics, syntax, diachronic semantics
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Učenje jezika - jezična proizvodnja i gramatičke strukture u ranom jezičnom razvoju

About meaning - Introduction to semantics

Knjiga nastoji cjelovito prikazati i obrazložiti znanstvenu disciplinu kao sto je semantika. Obuh... more Knjiga nastoji cjelovito prikazati i obrazložiti znanstvenu disciplinu kao sto je semantika. Obuhvaca prikaze razlicitih razdoblja razvoja semantike kao lingvisticke discipline, prikazuje temeljne modele opisa znacenja te obrazlaže temeljne pojmove lekiscke semantike kao sto su sinonimija, polisemija, homonimija itd. Pokusava također obuhvatiti i dati prikaz hrvatski istraživanja u okviru te discipline.

The conceptual category of 'light' in Croatian: a diachronic perspective

Predgovor tematskom broju

Suvremena Lingvistika, Dec 22, 2014

Arguments for Phrasal Verbs in Croatian and Their Influence on Semantic Relations in Croatian WordNet

In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar descript... more In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar description in order to show their influence on semantic relations, namely synonymy and polysemy in Croatian WordNet (henceforth CroWN). We discuss the practical and theoretical implications that arise from the introduction of the category of phrasal verbs in the description of the Croatian lexicon. We also address the interaction of synonymy and polysemy as manifested in the semantic relations of phrasal verbs to their monolexemic counterparts and facilitated by the structure of CroWN. The lemmatization of phrasal verbs in Croatian dictionaries and its modification for purposes of improving semantical relations in CroWN is also discussed. We also propose building of the Croatian phrasal verbs database, describe its structure and its further expanison which would facilitate extraction and incorporation of phrasal verbs into CroWN, and thus improve MT systems and information extraction via this c...

Models of lexical meaning

by Carita Paradis and Ida Raffaelli

Word Knowledge and Word Usage A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon, 2020

Lexical semantics is concerned with modeling the meaning of lexical items. Its leading questions ... more Lexical semantics is concerned with modeling the meaning of lexical items. Its leading questions are how forms and meanings combine, what they mean, how they are used, and of course also how they change. The answers to these five questions make up the fundamental theoretical assumptions and commitments which underlie different theories of lexical semantics, and they form the basis for their various methodological choices. In this chapter, we discuss four main models of lexical meaning: relational, symbolic, conceptual and distri-butional. The aim is to investigate their historical background, their specific differences , the methodological and theoretical assumptions that lie behind those differences, the main strengths and the main challenges of each perspective.

Grammatical underpinnings of lexicalization patterns in Croatian, English and French: the case of [N PP] constructions

LingBaW_ Linguistics Beyond and Within, 2018

This paper deals with the noun-preposition [N PP] construction in Croatian and compares the const... more This paper deals with the noun-preposition [N PP] construction in Croatian and compares the construction to its counterparts in English and French. Noun – preposition relations are analyzed as grammatical relations which participate in the formation of the lexicon, i.e. as grammatical devices which are productively used as lexicalization patterns. Based on the corpus analysis, [N PP] constructions in Croatian are identified and contrasted to English and French data. Lexical status of multi-word units in Croatian is discussed, as well as the level of idiomaticity of these constructions as compared to English and French. Whereas French and Croatian employ a similar lexicalization pattern, English uses compounding. The lexicon – grammar continuum is thus observed from the perspective of syntactic structures participating in word-formation.

The concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon: The example of tactile verbs

LingBaw - Linguistics Beyond and Within, 2018

This paper explores the importance of the concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and... more This paper explores the importance of the concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon.
The main goals of the paper are 1) to investigate differences and similarities in conceptual mappings based on the
concept of ‘touch’ in two typologically different and genetically unrelated languages by analyzing verbs referring
to touch in Croatian and Turkish 2) to see to what extent the formation of tactile verbs differs with respect to
lexicalization patterns in the two languages.

Kroz leksikologiju i semantiku

Od dvojbe do razdvojbe - Zbornik radova u čast profesorici Branki Tafri, 2018

U članku se raspravlja o odnosu rječotvorja, leksikologije i semantike. Prikazuje se model morfos... more U članku se raspravlja o odnosu rječotvorja, leksikologije i semantike. Prikazuje se model morfosemantičkih i leksikalizacijskih obrazaca kojim se argumentira teza o potrebi za neraskidivošću tih triju disciplina kako bi se dobio što cjelovitiji i sveobuhvatniji opis načina na koji se puni leksičko blago nekoga jezika.

Morfosemantička obilježja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom

Zbornik hrvatskog slavističkog kongresa, 2017

Morfosemantička obilježja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom1 U radu se istražuju načela leksičkog... more Morfosemantička obilježja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom1 U radu se istražuju načela leksičkoga ustroja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom s obzirom na njihova morfosemantička obilježja. Načela leksičkoga ustroja promatraju se s u odnosu na djelovanje tvorbenih procesa i procesa izgradnje značenja koji sukladno modelu morfosemantičkih obrazaca djeluju istodobno. Svaka je motivirana riječ u odnosu na nemotiviranu riječ tvorbeno i značenjski obilježena predstavljajući tako novu pojmovnu strukturu. U radu se analizira četrdesetak glagola koji označuju vidnu, slušnu percepciju i njuh te se upućuje na pravilnosti morfosemantičkoga ustroja percepcijskih glagola. Ključne riječi: model morfosemantičkih obrazaca, percepcijski glagoli, hrvatski jezik

Croatian phrasal verbs

by Daniela Katunar and Ida Raffaelli

In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar descript... more In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar description in order to show their influence on semantic relations, namely synonymy and polysemy in Croatian WordNet (henceforth CroWN). We discuss the practical and theoretical implications that arise from the introduction of the category of phrasal verbs in the description of the Croatian lexicon. We also address the interaction of synonymy and polysemy as manifested in the semantic relations of phrasal verbs to their monolexemic counterparts and facilitated by the structure of CroWN. The lemmatization of phrasal verbs in Croatian dictionaries and its modification for purposes of improving semantical relations in CroWN is also discussed. We also propose building of the Croatian phrasal verbs database, describe its structure and its further expanison which would facilitate extraction and incorporation of phrasal verbs into CroWN, and thus improve MT systems and information extraction via this computational lexical resource.

The concept of 'taste' in formation of Croatian and Turkish lexicon: A contrastive analysis 1

by Ida Raffaelli and Barbara Kerovec

The paper explores the importance of the concept of 'taste' in the formation of the Croa-tian and... more The paper explores the importance of the concept of 'taste' in the formation of the Croa-tian and the Turkish lexicon. The main goals of the paper are 1) to investigate differences and similarities in conceptual mappings based on the concept of 'taste' in two typologi-cally different and genetically unrelated languages by analyzing the vocabulary based on the root kus in Croatian and the vocabulary based on the root tat in Turkish and 2) to see to what extent the formation of taste vocabulary differs with respect to lexicalization patterns in the two languages.

Conventionalization patterns of colour naming in Croatian

This paper is based on the research conducted as part of the international project " Evolution of... more This paper is based on the research conducted as part of the international project " Evolution of Semantic Systems " (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen). The Croatian language was one of 50 Indo-European languages included in the research. All research within the project consisted of several different types of speaker elicitation testing. Colour terms were one of the four basic areas of research. The results of the colour naming task are presented in the paper. The data was comprised of 1680 responses in total. The results of the data analysis showed some regularities in colour naming in Croatian. In this paper conventionalized lexicalization patterns of colour naming in Croatian are defined and distinguished from novel expressions. The goal of the paper is to define strategies used in colour naming.

A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF SPORTS DISCOURSE IN CROATIAN

This paper deals with the analysis of sports discourse in Croatian through the theoretical framew... more This paper deals with the analysis of sports discourse in Croatian through the theoretical framework offered by conceptual metaphor theory. Within this framework, certain metaphorical expressions found in sports discourse are analyzed as expressions of two conceptual metaphors: sport is war and sport is force. The analysis of these meta-phorical expressions combines the methodology of cognitive linguistics with corpus linguistics, resulting in the proposal of a new method for discourse analysis in general. In our research, we introduce the notion of the specialized digitized corpus as a basis for further quantitative and qualitative research. On the basis of the specialized digitized corpus created for the purposes of this research, it is shown how the formation of sports discourse is dependent on three categories of metaphorical expressions relative to the degree of their conventionalization within sports discourse: (a) conventionalized, (b) semi-conventionalized, and (c) innovative metaphorical expressions. Each of these categories is analyzed according to their frequency and various aspects of meaning that it entails. Through the introduction of the semi-conventionalized metaphorical expression category, we aim to examine the gradable line between language creativity and conventionality as it is formed within the discourse of sports.

Rad Zagrebačkoga lingvističkog kruga

The conceptual category of 'light' in Croatian: a diachronic perspective

In memoriam: Miro Kačić (1946. - 2001.)

Iz iskustva lingvističkoga časopisa (METM-08) - osvrt

,] LVNXVWYD OLQJYLVWLaNRJD aDVRSLVD 0(70r U Splitu je od 11. do 13. rujna 2008. godine odr'an me|... more

Odnos strukturalne semantike prema kognitivnoj

Izvorni znanstveni ~lanak Prihva}eno za tisak 12. 05. 2005.

Učenje jezika - jezična proizvodnja i gramatičke strukture u ranom jezičnom razvoju

About meaning - Introduction to semantics

Knjiga nastoji cjelovito prikazati i obrazložiti znanstvenu disciplinu kao sto je semantika. Obuh... more Knjiga nastoji cjelovito prikazati i obrazložiti znanstvenu disciplinu kao sto je semantika. Obuhvaca prikaze razlicitih razdoblja razvoja semantike kao lingvisticke discipline, prikazuje temeljne modele opisa znacenja te obrazlaže temeljne pojmove lekiscke semantike kao sto su sinonimija, polisemija, homonimija itd. Pokusava također obuhvatiti i dati prikaz hrvatski istraživanja u okviru te discipline.

The conceptual category of 'light' in Croatian: a diachronic perspective

Predgovor tematskom broju

Suvremena Lingvistika, Dec 22, 2014

Arguments for Phrasal Verbs in Croatian and Their Influence on Semantic Relations in Croatian WordNet

In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar descript... more In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar description in order to show their influence on semantic relations, namely synonymy and polysemy in Croatian WordNet (henceforth CroWN). We discuss the practical and theoretical implications that arise from the introduction of the category of phrasal verbs in the description of the Croatian lexicon. We also address the interaction of synonymy and polysemy as manifested in the semantic relations of phrasal verbs to their monolexemic counterparts and facilitated by the structure of CroWN. The lemmatization of phrasal verbs in Croatian dictionaries and its modification for purposes of improving semantical relations in CroWN is also discussed. We also propose building of the Croatian phrasal verbs database, describe its structure and its further expanison which would facilitate extraction and incorporation of phrasal verbs into CroWN, and thus improve MT systems and information extraction via this c...

Models of lexical meaning

by Carita Paradis and Ida Raffaelli

Word Knowledge and Word Usage A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to the Mental Lexicon, 2020

Lexical semantics is concerned with modeling the meaning of lexical items. Its leading questions ... more Lexical semantics is concerned with modeling the meaning of lexical items. Its leading questions are how forms and meanings combine, what they mean, how they are used, and of course also how they change. The answers to these five questions make up the fundamental theoretical assumptions and commitments which underlie different theories of lexical semantics, and they form the basis for their various methodological choices. In this chapter, we discuss four main models of lexical meaning: relational, symbolic, conceptual and distri-butional. The aim is to investigate their historical background, their specific differences , the methodological and theoretical assumptions that lie behind those differences, the main strengths and the main challenges of each perspective.

Grammatical underpinnings of lexicalization patterns in Croatian, English and French: the case of [N PP] constructions

LingBaW_ Linguistics Beyond and Within, 2018

This paper deals with the noun-preposition [N PP] construction in Croatian and compares the const... more This paper deals with the noun-preposition [N PP] construction in Croatian and compares the construction to its counterparts in English and French. Noun – preposition relations are analyzed as grammatical relations which participate in the formation of the lexicon, i.e. as grammatical devices which are productively used as lexicalization patterns. Based on the corpus analysis, [N PP] constructions in Croatian are identified and contrasted to English and French data. Lexical status of multi-word units in Croatian is discussed, as well as the level of idiomaticity of these constructions as compared to English and French. Whereas French and Croatian employ a similar lexicalization pattern, English uses compounding. The lexicon – grammar continuum is thus observed from the perspective of syntactic structures participating in word-formation.

The concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon: The example of tactile verbs

LingBaw - Linguistics Beyond and Within, 2018

This paper explores the importance of the concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and... more This paper explores the importance of the concept of ‘touch’ in the formation of the Croatian and Turkish lexicon.
The main goals of the paper are 1) to investigate differences and similarities in conceptual mappings based on the
concept of ‘touch’ in two typologically different and genetically unrelated languages by analyzing verbs referring
to touch in Croatian and Turkish 2) to see to what extent the formation of tactile verbs differs with respect to
lexicalization patterns in the two languages.

Kroz leksikologiju i semantiku

Od dvojbe do razdvojbe - Zbornik radova u čast profesorici Branki Tafri, 2018

U članku se raspravlja o odnosu rječotvorja, leksikologije i semantike. Prikazuje se model morfos... more U članku se raspravlja o odnosu rječotvorja, leksikologije i semantike. Prikazuje se model morfosemantičkih i leksikalizacijskih obrazaca kojim se argumentira teza o potrebi za neraskidivošću tih triju disciplina kako bi se dobio što cjelovitiji i sveobuhvatniji opis načina na koji se puni leksičko blago nekoga jezika.

Morfosemantička obilježja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom

Zbornik hrvatskog slavističkog kongresa, 2017

Morfosemantička obilježja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom1 U radu se istražuju načela leksičkog... more Morfosemantička obilježja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom1 U radu se istražuju načela leksičkoga ustroja percepcijskih glagola u hrvatskom s obzirom na njihova morfosemantička obilježja. Načela leksičkoga ustroja promatraju se s u odnosu na djelovanje tvorbenih procesa i procesa izgradnje značenja koji sukladno modelu morfosemantičkih obrazaca djeluju istodobno. Svaka je motivirana riječ u odnosu na nemotiviranu riječ tvorbeno i značenjski obilježena predstavljajući tako novu pojmovnu strukturu. U radu se analizira četrdesetak glagola koji označuju vidnu, slušnu percepciju i njuh te se upućuje na pravilnosti morfosemantičkoga ustroja percepcijskih glagola. Ključne riječi: model morfosemantičkih obrazaca, percepcijski glagoli, hrvatski jezik

Croatian phrasal verbs

by Daniela Katunar and Ida Raffaelli

In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar descript... more In this paper we introduce the category of phrasal verbs in Croatian lexicon and grammar description in order to show their influence on semantic relations, namely synonymy and polysemy in Croatian WordNet (henceforth CroWN). We discuss the practical and theoretical implications that arise from the introduction of the category of phrasal verbs in the description of the Croatian lexicon. We also address the interaction of synonymy and polysemy as manifested in the semantic relations of phrasal verbs to their monolexemic counterparts and facilitated by the structure of CroWN. The lemmatization of phrasal verbs in Croatian dictionaries and its modification for purposes of improving semantical relations in CroWN is also discussed. We also propose building of the Croatian phrasal verbs database, describe its structure and its further expanison which would facilitate extraction and incorporation of phrasal verbs into CroWN, and thus improve MT systems and information extraction via this computational lexical resource.

The concept of 'taste' in formation of Croatian and Turkish lexicon: A contrastive analysis 1

by Ida Raffaelli and Barbara Kerovec

The paper explores the importance of the concept of 'taste' in the formation of the Croa-tian and... more The paper explores the importance of the concept of 'taste' in the formation of the Croa-tian and the Turkish lexicon. The main goals of the paper are 1) to investigate differences and similarities in conceptual mappings based on the concept of 'taste' in two typologi-cally different and genetically unrelated languages by analyzing the vocabulary based on the root kus in Croatian and the vocabulary based on the root tat in Turkish and 2) to see to what extent the formation of taste vocabulary differs with respect to lexicalization patterns in the two languages.

Conventionalization patterns of colour naming in Croatian

This paper is based on the research conducted as part of the international project " Evolution of... more This paper is based on the research conducted as part of the international project " Evolution of Semantic Systems " (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen). The Croatian language was one of 50 Indo-European languages included in the research. All research within the project consisted of several different types of speaker elicitation testing. Colour terms were one of the four basic areas of research. The results of the colour naming task are presented in the paper. The data was comprised of 1680 responses in total. The results of the data analysis showed some regularities in colour naming in Croatian. In this paper conventionalized lexicalization patterns of colour naming in Croatian are defined and distinguished from novel expressions. The goal of the paper is to define strategies used in colour naming.

A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF SPORTS DISCOURSE IN CROATIAN

This paper deals with the analysis of sports discourse in Croatian through the theoretical framew... more This paper deals with the analysis of sports discourse in Croatian through the theoretical framework offered by conceptual metaphor theory. Within this framework, certain metaphorical expressions found in sports discourse are analyzed as expressions of two conceptual metaphors: sport is war and sport is force. The analysis of these meta-phorical expressions combines the methodology of cognitive linguistics with corpus linguistics, resulting in the proposal of a new method for discourse analysis in general. In our research, we introduce the notion of the specialized digitized corpus as a basis for further quantitative and qualitative research. On the basis of the specialized digitized corpus created for the purposes of this research, it is shown how the formation of sports discourse is dependent on three categories of metaphorical expressions relative to the degree of their conventionalization within sports discourse: (a) conventionalized, (b) semi-conventionalized, and (c) innovative metaphorical expressions. Each of these categories is analyzed according to their frequency and various aspects of meaning that it entails. Through the introduction of the semi-conventionalized metaphorical expression category, we aim to examine the gradable line between language creativity and conventionality as it is formed within the discourse of sports.

Rad Zagrebačkoga lingvističkog kruga

The conceptual category of 'light' in Croatian: a diachronic perspective

In memoriam: Miro Kačić (1946. - 2001.)

Iz iskustva lingvističkoga časopisa (METM-08) - osvrt

,] LVNXVWYD OLQJYLVWLaNRJD aDVRSLVD 0(70r U Splitu je od 11. do 13. rujna 2008. godine odr'an me|... more

Odnos strukturalne semantike prema kognitivnoj

Izvorni znanstveni ~lanak Prihva}eno za tisak 12. 05. 2005.

Lexicalization patterns in color naming: a cross-linguistic perspective

by Ida Raffaelli and Daniela Katunar

Lexicalization patterns in color naming: a cross-linguistic perspective, 2019

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a... more The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic devices languages use to form color terms.
The aim of this volume is to approach color data from a relativist and typological perspective and to address some novel viewpoints in the research of color terms, such as:
a) the focus on language structure per se in the study of lexicalization data,
b) investigation of inter- and intra-language structural variation,
c) culture and language contact as being reflected in language structure.
Topics of this book have a broad appeal to researchers working in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

O značenju - uvod u semantiku

Knjiga O značenju / Uvod u semantiku, kao što sam podnaslov kaže, u prvom je redu namijenjena stu... more Knjiga O značenju / Uvod u semantiku, kao što sam podnaslov kaže, u prvom je redu namijenjena studentima jezikoslovnih grupa te slijedom toga proizlazi da je riječ o sveučilišnom udžbeniku. Međutim, opsežnost prikaza semantike kao discipline bit će od velike koristi i svima onima koji žele proniknuti u slojevitost semantičkih istraživanja i s njima povezanim problemima značenja. Očekujem, također, da će ovo djelo biti od koristi i kolegama iz drugih disciplina humanističkih znanosti, osobito onima koje se u pojedinim dijelovima dotiču pitanja značenja.

Morphology and Semantics – MMM9 On-line Proceedings

by Francesca Masini, Nikos Koutsoukos, and Ida Raffaelli