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In:Personification in Language and Thought: Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian
Gábor Simon
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 27] 2026
► pp. 201–247

Chapter 6
Scaling up the analysis

From the PerSE corpus to representative corpora of Hungarian

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Article outline
  • 6.1Exploring personifications in large corpora:
    Data types and methodology
    • 6.1.1The HNC2-UD and the huTenTen12 corpus
    • 6.1.2Approaches to corpus-based analysis of linguistic
      personifications in large corpora
    • 6.1.3The corpus-driven analysis of linguistic personifications
      in large corpora: Simple collexeme analysis
  • 6.2The corpus-based analysis: Results and discussion
    • 6.2.1The lexical approach: Personifications as collocational patterns
      • 6.2.1.1The inváziós ‘invasive’ noun pattern
      • 6.2.1.2The noun befolyás ‘influence’ pattern
      • 6.2.1.3The erős ‘strong’ noun pattern
      • 6.2.1.4The noun mutat ‘show’ pattern
    • 6.2.2The grammatical approach: Personification as word class sequence
      • 6.2.2.1The adj + noun pattern
      • 6.2.2.2The verb/inf + det + noun pattern
      • 6.2.2.3The adj + noun + verb pattern
      • 6.2.2.4The adv + verb/inf + det + noun pattern
      • 6.2.2.5The verb/inf +det + adj + noun pattern
    • 6.2.3The lexicogrammatical approach: Personifications as mosaic n-grams
      • 6.2.3.1The nounnom + tudverb ‘can/know’ + inf (+ nounacc) pattern
      • 6.2.3.2The nounnom + képesadj ‘able’ + inf (+ nounacc), and the nounnom + képesadj ‘able’ + nounsub patterns
      • 6.2.3.3The nounnom + .*szerepet ‘role.acc’+ játszikverb ‘play’ +
        nounine pattern
    • 6.2.4Interim summary — the extended corpus-based analysis
      of linguistic personifications
  • 6.3The corpus-driven analysis: Results and discussion
    • 6.3.1Personification as word-construction association
    • 6.3.2The semantic preferences of the constructional pattern
      in personifications
      • 6.3.2.1Verbal personifications in the category of animals
      • 6.3.2.2Verbal personifications in the category of plants
      • 6.3.2.3Verbal personifications in the category of natural phenomena
    • 6.3.3Interim summary — the corpus-driven analysis
      of linguistic personifications
  • 6.4Summary
  • Notes
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