translation studies - Facultatea de Litere - Dunarea de Jos

Carmen Ciobanu
The ‘Talk Much’ Paradigms in English and Romanian
- identify a feature which opposes at least one field constituent to other terms, as ‘fast,
intense speech’ [+Fast];
- identify the morpho-semantic fields radiating from TALK MUCH - VORBI MULT,
and synonymous MOSVs, in keeping with the latest developments in the semantic field
theory, which stipulate that the analysis should account not only for the relationships of
paradigmatically contrasting words (i.e.Verbs), but also for its semantically and
morphologically related word classes (i.e. Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs and phraseological
units). 26
VERB ADJ/ADV NCharac / Result NAction NAgent NArtic Source
Domain
FROM
talk talkative talk talk(ing) (great)
comm talk (v)
talky
talker
chat chatty chattiness (chit)chat chatter sound onom
chattily
chatting
chatter chattering chattering chattering chatterer
sound onom
(ly)
chatter chatter
(ation) box
clatter clattering
ly)
clattering clatter clatterer sound onom
natter nattery natter obscure ? onom
gossip gossipy gossip(ing)
gossipry
gossip gossip
(-mon
ger)
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spiritual
relation
ship
godsibb (n)
‘sib in God’
mag mag (ging) magpie human Margaret
(tittle-) tattling(ly) (tittle-) tattle (tittle-) tattle/- (tittle-)
sound onom
tattle
ing
tattler
prate prating(ly) prate prater ?comm L.G. praten
prattle prattle prattle prattler
comm diminutive
prattlement
prattle-box
of prate
palaver palaver palaverer comm palavra (n)
‘word’
jaw jawing jaw jaw body
sound
jaw
gab gabby gabfest (gift of the) gabber gab body Gael.gob
(about)
(esp. AmE) gab
‘mouth’
clack clacking
(ly)
clacking clacker clack sound onom
jabber jabbering
(ly)
jabber jabberer sound onom
ya(c)k ya(c)king ya(c)k ya(c)ketyya(c)k
sound onom
rattle rattling
rattle- instrument onom
(on/off) (ly)
trap sound
clatter clattering
clatter clatterer com onom
(ly)
sound
cackle cackle bird
sound
onom
twitter twitter bird sound onom
rabbit
animal rabbit (n)
(on)
movement
drivel drivelling drivel driveller human drivel (n)
(on,
animal ‘nonsense’
away)
‘frothy
saliva’
ramble rambling rambling movement ? roam (v)
( on) (ly)
gas gasbag sound onom