Patrick Hanks

List of John Benjamins publications for which Patrick Hanks plays a role.

Articles

Hanks, Patrick 2020 How context determines meaningComputational Phraseology, Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Jean-Pierre Colson (eds.), pp. 297–310 | Chapter
It is an extraordinary fact that, although most speakers and writers of the English language (or, we may presume, any other language) believe that they are capable of expressing any meaning that they want to with considerable precision, the behaviour of the words they use is highly variable,… read more
Preliminary findings from corpus analysis suggest that the semantics of each verb in the language are determined by the totality of its complementation patterns. Accurate description of those patterns requires a level of analytic delicacy which was not possible until the advent of large bodies of… read more
Hanks, Patrick 1990 Evidence and intuition in lexicographyMeaning and Lexicography, Tomaszczyk, Jerzy and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (eds.), pp. 31 ff. | Article