Seth Mehl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Seth Mehl is involved.
2022 Volatile concepts: Analysing discursive change through underspecification in co-occurrence quads Corpus studies of language through time: Special issue of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 (2022), McEnery, Tony, Gavin Brookes and Isobelle Clarke (eds.), pp. 428–450 | Article
This paper demonstrates the value of studying co-occurrence ‘quads’ – constellations of four non-adjacent lemmas that consistently co-occur across spans of up to 100 tokens – for understanding discursive change. We map meaning onto quads as ‘discursive concepts’, which encompass encyclopaedic… read more
2020 Make us difficult: Portrait of a non-standard construction English World-Wide 41:3, pp. 352–367 | Article
This paper introduces a previously undiscussed English construction, termed the make us difficult construction. Examples of the construction are presented, from the International Corpus of English and the Corpus of Global Web-Based English, and a quantitative analysis is conducted of the… read more
2017 Reading into the past: Materials and methods in historical semantics research Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics, Säily, Tanja, Arja Nurmi, Minna Palander-Collin and Anita Auer (eds.), pp. 53–82 | Chapter
The Linguistic DNA project investigates concepts in early modern England and adopts a bottom-up approach to query whether the key concepts intuited by historians of ideas are manifested in the printed discourse of the time. By applying computational methods and close reading to Early English Books… read more
2017 Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan (eds.). 2015. English Historical Semantics Journal of Historical Pragmatics 18:1, pp. 152–156 | Review