Øivin Andersen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Øivin Andersen is involved.
Articles
2012 Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the web to create and investigate a large corpus of modern Norwegian, Andersen, Gisle (ed.), pp. 331–350 | Article
Retrieving linguistic data from earlier stages of languages is a notoriously difficult task. Using large electronic corpora combined with data on frequency this task can to some extent be solved. In this article I focus on the use of token frequency as described in functional Grammaticalization… read more
2007 Indeterminacy, context, economy and well-formedness in specialist communication Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP: Studies in honour of Heribert Picht, Antia, Bassey E. (ed.), pp. 3–14 | Chapter
In this article I make a contrast between the concepts of indeterminacy and well-formedness on the one hand, and the concepts of vagueness and exactness on the other hand. In the further distinction between determination (degree of vagueness) and specification (degree of generality) I exemplify… read more