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oapen-20.500.12657-856652023-12-01T02:24:31Z 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 bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc::CFGA Semantics & pragmatics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFF Historical & comparative 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. 2023-11-30T11:00:09Z 2023-11-30T11:00:09Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85665 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780198890683_WEB.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/lexical-variation-and-change-9780198890676?prevNumResPerPage=20&prevSortField=1&sortField=8&resultsPerPage=20&start=0&lang=en&cc=gb# Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198890676.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198890676.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 608fbdcb-bd0a-4d50-9a26-902224692f76 337 Oxford KU Leuven Katholieke Universiteit Leuven open access
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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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