Idiomaticity and Esperanto texts: an empirical study
Probal Dasgupta · Linguistics · 1993
Esperanto has a highly productive word-formation system. There is, however, a tendency toward idiomatization in complex word forms. With a view to machine translation with Esperanto as the intermediate language, the present paper examines the nature of noncompositional words in a corpus of scientific texts. Various structural types are investigated. Semantically noncompositional words are rare in most groups but common in the group of preposition-contentive compounds. Suggestions are made for the resolution of noncompositionality in lexicography.