Svartsjuk tankelesing på vandresafari – en modell for bedømmelse av sammensatte ords gjennomsiktighet

Abstract

Compounds are ubiquitous in Norwegian language use, and therefore also in Norwegian dictionaries. Whether a compound is selected for entry in the dictionary depends in part on the lexicographers’ ability to distinguish transparent from nontransparent compounds. However, what decides if a compound is semantically transparent has never been fully investigated scientifically, at least not from a lexicographic point of view. This study outlines a model for assessing the semantic transparency of Norwegian compounds and presents the results of the model applied to a set of compounds.