Article published in:
Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymyEdited by Dylan Glynn and Justyna A. Robinson
[Human Cognitive Processing 43] 2014
► pp. 223–251
The semasiological structure of Polish myśleć ‘to think’
A study in verb-prefix semantics
Malgorzata Fabiszak | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Anna Hebda | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Iwona Kokorniak | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Karolina Krawczak | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
The aim of the present chapter is to investigate the semasiological structure of the Polish verb myśleć ‘to think’ relative to the construal imposed by its prefixes. It juxtaposes the results of cognitive linguistic corpus-based introspective analysis with the results of a series of statistical tests of almost 4,000 manually coded example sentences. Multiple cluster analysis employs the techniques presented in Glynn (this volume), hierarchical cluster analysis follows Divjak and Fieller (this volume) and logistic regression is based on Speelman (this volume). The study shows that the do- prefix has a strong preference for clausal, processual complements, while the wy- prefix opts for nominal complements suggesting objectifiable results of the thinking process.
Keywords: hierarchical cluster analysis, logistic regression, multiple correspondence analysis, Polish verb myslec ‘to think’, Polish verbal prefixes
Published online: 06 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.43.09fab
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.43.09fab
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