Exploiting Linguistic Iconism for Article Machine Translation
Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt · 1992
This paper is meant to give a cognitive-linguistic expirenation of the process of reference. This means that we are concerned with meaning arising from the speaker's conceptualisation of reality. Different ways of referring to the ssme real situation are reflected differently on the expression side of language. We will exemplify this with the use of articles. We deal with two contrasting processes which are reflected in NP syntax: on the one hand, this is the selectiou of a spedtic part ofa M&ss, which normally has an indef inite extension. Titis process results in identification and hence in token reference (cf. Declerck 1986:163; Croft 1985; Langacker 1987a). On the other hand we are concerned with type reference to coysT entities (of. ibd.), more specifically with how we can tMk about the whole kind of an entity which in reality is represented by individuM instances