ontolex & vartrans

Dear all,

  I have cleaned up the ontolex and the vartrans modules (up to 
translation). I hope to finish with synsem and vartrans this week actually.

While doing this, a question came up. Under the definition of lexical 
variants, we now say:

By lexical relations, we understand those relations at the surface 
forms, mainly motivated by grammatical requirements, style (Wortklang), 
and linguistic economy (helping to avoid excessive denominative 
repetition and improving textual coherence). Examples of lexical 
relations are the following:

  * Orthographic variants
      o Diatopic variants (e.g., localize vs. localise)
      o Diachronic variants (e.g., different scripts for languages such
        as Azeri)
      o Ideographic variants (e.g., in Japanese both “寿 司” and “鮨”
        are used for sushi)

  * Affixal variants
      o Derivational variants (e.g., adjective -> adverb variation:
        quick vs. quickly)
      o Inflectional variants (e.g., adjective agreement: rojo, roja,
        rojos, rojas)

  * Morphosyntactic variants
      o Compounds (e.g., ecological tourism vs. eco-tourism)
      o Abbreviations (including acronyms, among others. E.g., peer to
        peer and p2p; WYSWYG, FAO, UNO, etc.)
      o Rephrasing variants (e.g., immigration law vs. law for
        regulating and controlling immigration)


However, we define above in the spec ortographic variants as form 
variants not as lexical variants.
The same holds for the usage of different scripts which are form and not 
lexical variants.  The same holds for inflectional variants (adjective 
agreement) that is also modelled by form variants.

Rephrasing variants: these are strictly speaking not lexical variants 
but rather term variants, right?

So my question to Elena and Lupe: can you come up with a list of 
relations that are clearly relations between lexical entries and not 
between forms of one lexical entry?

Thanks and best regards,

Philipp.

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