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Term Variation in Specialised Corpora: Characterisation, automatic discovery and applications
Béatrice Daille
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 19] 2017
► pp. 33–65

Chapter 3
Conceptualisation of terminological variants

Article outline
  • 3.1Description of variants
    • 3.1.1Organisation of variants
    • 3.1.2Mechanisms and linguistic operations
    • 3.1.3Properties of variants
  • 3.2Denominative variants
    • 3.2.1Synonymic substitution
      • Morpheme
      • Functional word
      • Lexical component
    • 3.2.2Simplification
      • Compression
      • Lexeme/morpheme substitution
      • Composition
      • Acronym/initialism
      • Reduction
      • Morphological reduction
      • Lexical reduction
    • 3.2.3Exemplification
      • Decompression
      • Morpheme/lexeme substitution
      • Partial back-compounding
      • Lexical insertion
    • 3.2.4Competing patterns
  • 3.3Conceptual variants
    • 3.3.1Expansion
      • Derivation
      • Predication
      • Modification
        • i.Juxtaposition
          • Initial position
          • Post-position
        • ii.Insertion
      • 3.3.2Anaphorical reduction
  • 3.4Linguistic variants
    • 3.4.1Graphics and spelling
      • Misspelling
      • Segmentation
      • Space
      • Hyphenation
      • Normative spelling
      • French spelling
      • German spelling
      • Americain/British spelling
      • Writting conventions
      • Spelling of complex terms
    • 3.4.2Inflection
    • 3.4.3Derivation
    • 3.4.4Fullback-compounding
    • 3.4.5Modification
      • i.Juxtaposition
      • ii.Insertion
    • 3.4.6Coordination, disjunction and enumeration
      • i.Head coordination
      • ii.Coordination of expansion
  • 3.5Variants of register
    • 3.5.1Variation of scientification/popularisation
      • Synonymic substitution
      • Anaphorical reduction
    • 3.5.2Variants of position
  • 3.6Borders between categories of variants
    • 3.6.1Denominative and linguistic variants
    • 3.6.2Denominative and conceptual variants
    • 3.6.3Conceptual and linguistic variants