Mieko Ogura

List of John Benjamins publications for which Mieko Ogura plays a role.

Book series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (AHS)

Edited by Marijke J. van der Wal and Terttu Nevalainen

ISSN 2214-1057

Articles (7) | Order by:

Ogura, Mieko and William S-Y. Wang 2022 Chapter 3. Ambiguity resolution and the evolution of homophones in English English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 61–90 | Chapter

Based on a quantitative study of the evolution of homophones in English, we present an argument about why homophones occur. Zipf’s law, which states that word frequency decreases as a power law of its rank, can be seen as the outcome of form-meaning associations, adopted in order to comply with… read more

Ogura, Mieko and William S-Y. Wang 2012 The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008, Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger (eds.), pp. 65–84 | Article

We present a quantitative study of the semantic network of the set of nouns and verbs of WordNet, which is a systematic representation of the Present-day English lexicon based on psycholinguistic considerations, and A Thesaurus of Old English to understand the evolution of the global organization… read more

Ogura, Mieko and William S-Y. Wang 2008 Dynamic dialectology and social networks English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from the fourteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 14), Bergamo, 21–25 August 2006, Dossena, Marina, Richard Dury and Maurizio Gotti (eds.), pp. 131–151 | Article

This paper examines how different structures of social networks affect linguistic selection type of change or functionally biased change, and game type of change or socially biased change, based on simulation and historical data from English. We show that the weaker the functional or social bias,… read more

Ogura, Mieko and William S-Y. Wang 1996 Snowball effect in lexical diffusion: The development of -s in the third person singular present indicative in English English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994), Britton, Derek (ed.), pp. 119–142 | Article

Ogura, Mieko 1995 The Development of Middle English i and u: A Reply to Labov (1992, 1994) Diachronica 12:1, pp. 31–53 | Article

SUMMARY Based on the data presented in Ogura (1987), Labov (1992, 1994) reanalyzes the distribution of ME i and u words at 311 sites in England and maintains that the mathematical analysis supports the regularity hypothesis as well as the claim of phonetic conditioning of sound change. We have… read more

Ogura, Mieko 1993 The Development of Periphrastic do in English: A Case of Lexical Diffusion in Syntax Diachronica 10:1, pp. 51–85 | Article

SUMMARY Kroch (1989b) considers that there grounds for arguing in favor of a grammatical reanalysis in the development of periphrastic do in the period 1550-1575. He separates the data taken from Ellegård's (1953) work accordingly, claiming that across the contexts the changes have both the same… read more

Ogura, Mieko and William S-Y. Wang 1992 3. Isoglosses: Artifactual or real? Prehistory, History and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory: Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi I, Brogyanyi, Bela (ed.), pp. 153–182 | Article