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Corpus Methods for Semantics
Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy
This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of the statistical techniques used in the first part of the volume. A handbook both for linguists working with statistics in corpus research and for linguists in the fields of polysemy and synonymy.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 43] 2014. viii, 545 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 October 2014
Published online on 27 October 2014
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Contributors | pp. vii–viii
- Outline | pp. 1–4
- Section 1. Polysemy and synonymy
- Polysemy and synonymy: Corpus method and cognitive theoryDylan Glynn | pp. 7–38
- Competing ‘transfer’ constructions in Dutch: The case of ont-verbsMartine Delorge, Koen Plevoets and Timothy Colleman | pp. 39–60
- Rethinking constructional polysemy: The case of the English conative constructionFlorent Perek | pp. 61–85
- Quantifying polysemy in Cognitive SociolinguisticsJustyna A. Robinson | pp. 87–115
- The many uses of run: Corpus methods and Socio-Cognitive SemanticsDylan Glynn | pp. 117–144
- Visualizing distances in a set of near-synonyms: Rather, quite, fairly, and prettyGuillaume Desagulier | pp. 145–178
- A case for the multifactorial assessment of learner language: The uses of may and can in French-English interlanguageSandra C. Deshors and Stefan Th. Gries | pp. 179–204
- Dutch causative constructions: Quantification of meaning and meaning of quantificationNatalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman | pp. 205–221
- The semasiological structure of Polish myśleć ‘to think’: A study in verb-prefix semanticsMalgorzata Fabiszak, Anna Hebda, Iwona Kokorniak and Karolina Krawczak | pp. 223–251
- A multifactorial corpus analysis of grammatical synonymy: The Estonian adessive and adposition peal ‘on’Jane Klavan | pp. 253–278
- A diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis of “I think that” vs. “I think zero”Christopher Shank, Koen Plevoets and Hubert Cuyckens | pp. 279–303
- Section 2. Statistical techniques
- Techniques and tools: Corpus methods and statistics for semanticsDylan Glynn | pp. 307–341
- Statistics in R: First stepsJoost van de Weijer and Dylan Glynn | pp. 343–364
- Frequency tables: Tests, effect sizes, and explorationsStefan Th. Gries | pp. 365–389
- Collostructional analysis: Measuring associations between constructions and lexical elementsMartin Hilpert | pp. 391–404
- Cluster analysis: Finding structure in linguistic dataDagmar Divjak and Nick Fieller | pp. 405–441
- Correspondence analysis: Exploring data and identifying patternsDylan Glynn | pp. 443–485
- Logistic regression: A confirmatory technique for comparisons in corpus linguisticsDirk Speelman | pp. 487–533
- Name index | pp. 535–539
- Subject index | pp. 541–545
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