Lexical Variation and Change

Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in various types of quantitative context analysis. This monograph explores how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces...

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Hlavní autoři: Geeraerts, Dirk, Speelman, Dirk, Heylen, Kris, Montes, Mariana, De Pascale, Stefano, Franco, Karlien, Lang, Michael
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author Geeraerts, Dirk
Speelman, Dirk
Heylen, Kris
Montes, Mariana
De Pascale, Stefano
Franco, Karlien
Lang, Michael
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Franco, Karlien
Geeraerts, Dirk
Heylen, Kris
Lang, Michael
Montes, Mariana
Speelman, Dirk
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Heylen, Kris
Montes, Mariana
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description Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in various types of quantitative context analysis. This monograph explores how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces, as an advanced form of such a quantitative methodology, can be applied to the study of polysemy, lexical variation, and lectometry. What can distributional models reveal about meaning? How can they be used to analyse the semantic relationship between near-synonyms? And how can they contribute to the study of lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable? The book details the conceptual background of lexical semantic and lexical variation research, explains the mechanism of distributional modelling, and introduces distributional workflows and corpus linguistic tools to answer the questions. Combining a cognitive linguistic interest in meaning with a sociolinguistic interest in variation, it illustrates that distributional methodology with case studies on Dutch and Spanish lexical data, focusing on the value of distributional models for semantic analysis, the interaction of semasiological and onomasiological change, and sociolinguistic issues of lexical standardization and pluricentricity.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1288852025-03-20T23:00:43Z Lexical Variation and Change Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Heylen, Kris Montes, Mariana De Pascale, Stefano Franco, Karlien Lang, Michael distributional semantics, lexical semantics, lexicology, lexical variation, corpus semantics, lectometry, cognitive linguistics Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in various types of quantitative context analysis. This monograph explores how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces, as an advanced form of such a quantitative methodology, can be applied to the study of polysemy, lexical variation, and lectometry. What can distributional models reveal about meaning? How can they be used to analyse the semantic relationship between near-synonyms? And how can they contribute to the study of lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable? The book details the conceptual background of lexical semantic and lexical variation research, explains the mechanism of distributional modelling, and introduces distributional workflows and corpus linguistic tools to answer the questions. Combining a cognitive linguistic interest in meaning with a sociolinguistic interest in variation, it illustrates that distributional methodology with case studies on Dutch and Spanish lexical data, focusing on the value of distributional models for semantic analysis, the interaction of semasiological and onomasiological change, and sociolinguistic issues of lexical standardization and pluricentricity. 2023-12-01T04:08:23Z 2023-12-01T04:08:23Z 2023-11-30T11:00:09Z 2024 book OCN: 1401014193 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85665 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/128885 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85665/1/9780198890683_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85665/1/9780198890683_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85665/1/9780198890683_WEB.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198890676.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198890676.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 KU Leuven 608fbdcb-bd0a-4d50-9a26-902224692f76 337 Oxford open access
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Lexical Variation and Change
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