Yves Peirsman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yves Peirsman is involved.
Articles
2015 The corpus-based identification of cross-lectal synonyms in pluricentric languages International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:1, pp. 54–80 | Article
This article discusses a corpus-based method for the automatic identification of synonyms across different varieties of the same language. This method, based on the paradigm of distributional semantics, quantifies semantic similarity on the basis of contextual similarity in two comparable corpora.… read more
2011 Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 89–102 | Article
This chapter investigates the relationship between metonymy and two related semantic phenomena: profile/zone discrepancy and facetization. Both of these phenomena aim to explain linguistic examples that activate only a specific zone or facet of the entity referred to. However, their precise… read more
2011 Review of Panther, Thornburg & Barcelona (): Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 315–320 | Review