Morpho-Lexemic Analysis of the Base /tecn-

This paper is of a metalinguistic nature: it is not on technical language in general, nor on any particular technical language, but it attempts to research some aspects of the behavior of the lexemes derived from the basis /tecn-/, which is common to hundreds of words. The study rests on three underpinnings: a conviction, a series of concepts, & a method. It is my conviction that linguistic research must be based - more than it is nowadays - on the real language used by speakers. On these grounds, corpora are not only useful, but absolutely necessary. The kind of analysis carried out in this paper is grounded in a syntactic-pragmatic conception of modality, on the one hand, & on structural semantics, on the other hand. The results obtained are the outcome of a highly detailed analysis; from the 218 lexemes that were initially taken into account, only 125 eventually remained after a selective process; & from the 15,658 concordances that were initially considered, only 906 were finally selected for the analysis. These were all the concordances with the lemmas tenicamente, tecnologicamente, tecnocrata, tecnocratico, & tecnificado, as well as a 10% of the concordances with the lemma tecnologico. 4 Appendixes, 19 References. Adapted from the source document