Corpus Methods for Semantics

Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy

Editors

Dylan Glynn

| University of Paris VIII

Justyna A. Robinson

| University of Sussex

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.43

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii–viii
Outline	1–4
Section 1. Polysemy and synonymy
Polysemy and synonymy: Corpus method and cognitive theory Dylan Glynn	7–38
Competing ‘transfer’ constructions in Dutch: The case of ont-verbs Martine Delorge, Koen Plevoets and Timothy Colleman	39–60
Rethinking constructional polysemy: The case of the English conative construction Florent Perek	61–85
Quantifying polysemy in Cognitive Sociolinguistics Justyna A. Robinson	87–115
The many uses of run: Corpus methods and Socio-Cognitive Semantics Dylan Glynn	117–144
Visualizing distances in a set of near-synonyms: Rather, quite, fairly, and pretty Guillaume Desagulier	145–178
A case for the multifactorial assessment of learner language: The uses of may and can in French-English interlanguage Sandra C. Deshors and Stefan Th. Gries	179–204
Dutch causative constructions: Quantification of meaning and meaning of quantification Natalia Levshina, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman	205–221
The semasiological structure of Polish myśleć ‘to think’: A study in verb-prefix semantics Malgorzata Fabiszak, Anna Hebda, Iwona Kokorniak and Karolina Krawczak	223–251
A multifactorial corpus analysis of grammatical synonymy: The Estonian adessive and adposition peal ‘on’ Jane Klavan	253–278
A diachronic corpus-based multivariate analysis of “I think that” vs. “I think zero” Christopher Shank, Koen Plevoets and Hubert Cuyckens	279–303
Section 2. Statistical techniques
Techniques and tools: Corpus methods and statistics for semantics Dylan Glynn	307–341
Statistics in R: First steps Joost van de Weijer and Dylan Glynn	343–364
Frequency tables: Tests, effect sizes, and explorations Stefan Th. Gries	365–389
Collostructional analysis: Measuring associations between constructions and lexical elements Martin Hilpert	391–404
Cluster analysis: Finding structure in linguistic data Dagmar Divjak and Nick Fieller	405–441
Correspondence analysis: Exploring data and identifying patterns Dylan Glynn	443–485
Logistic regression: A confirmatory technique for comparisons in corpus linguistics Dirk Speelman	487–533
Name index	535–539
Subject index	541–545

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Subjects

Linguistics

Corpus linguistics

Syntax

Cognitive linguistics

Semantics

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014004752