Structuring the Lexicon

Name: Structuring the Lexicon | A Clustered Model for Near-Synonymy
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A Clustered Model for Near-Synonymy

Dagmar Divjak(Autor*in)

De Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 23. Dezember 2010

XII, 278 Seiten

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Intro
Preface
Contents
1. Introduction
1. What is near-synonymy?
2. Theoretical framework: basic concepts
2.1. Cognitive Grammar and construal
2.2. Radical Construction Grammar and sets of constructions
2.3. Prototype Theory and the structure of categories
2.3.1. Horizontal and vertical category structure
2.3.2. Category structure representations
3. Methodology: a distribution-based approach
4. Outline of this book
2. Degrees of event integration: delineating groups of near-synonyms
1. Are all [Vfin Vinf] structures created equal?
1.1. Near-synonyms: between grammar and lexicon?
1.2. Theoretical motivations for taking a construction-based approach to delineation
1.3. Methodology and data collection
2. Three parameters
2.1. Reification and the argument structure of the finite verb
2.1.1. Referential inclusion under a bare case pattern
2.1.2. Referential inclusion under a prepositional pattern
2.1.3. Absence of referential inclusion
2.1.4. Summary: something versus do something
2.1.5. An interpretation: on things and (atemporal) relations
2.2. Objectification and that-complementation
2.2.1. Èto-complementation
2.2.2. Ètoby-complementation
2.2.3. Absence of that-complementation
2.2.4. Summary: clausal remnants?
2.2.5. An interpretation: distancing and objective construal
2.3. Distancing and the temporal event-structure of the finite verb
2.3.1. Temporal separability
2.3.2. Temporal inseparability
2.3.3. Summary: on time
2.3.4. An interpretation: bounded events
3. Degrees of verb integration: a binding scale for Russian
3.1. Eight logical combination possibilities
3.2. Reflecting the degrees of verb integration
3.3. Degrees of verb integration and verb classes
3.4. Main conclusions and an outlook
3.4.1. Support for the main conclusions
3.4.2. An outlook
3. Ways of intending: constructional frames for lexicographical portraits
1. A note on aspectual peculiarities
1.1. A very brief overview of theoretical aspectual analyses
1.2. Bifurcation and tripartition of M-verbs
1.2.1. Aspectual derivation and logical implication
1.2.2. Lexical aspect
2. Constructional differences: meaning contours of plans and intentions
2.1. Something versus Doing Something
2.2. Clausal Remnants
2.3. On Time
3. How constructions contrast plans and intentions
4. Summary: Implications of a network-based delineation of near-synonyms
4. Clustering Behavioral Profiles: structuring groups of near-synonyms
1. Are all near-synonyms equally similar?
1.1. The delineation problem
1.2. The structuring problem
1.3. The description problem
2. Behavioral Profiles as a measure of similarity
2.1. The data
2.2. The parameters
2.2.1. Operationalization and annotation of formal properties
2.2.2. Operationalization and annotation of semantic properties
3. Clustering Behavioral Profiles
3.1. Hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis
3.2. A three-cluster solution
3.3. Discriminating the variables that drive the clustering
3.4. A more detailed look at each of the three clusters
3.5. Interpreting the three clusters
4. An interim conclusion
5. Ways of TRYING: describing scales of variation in a radial category
1. Prototype Theory
1.1. The structure of natural categories
1.1.1. Horizontal category structure
1.1.2. Vertical category structure
1.1.3. Category structure representations
1.2. The structure of linguistic categories
1.2.1. Relational versus non-relational concepts
1.2.2. Tangible vs. intangible concepts
2. Prototype Semantics
2.1. Prototype effects for intangible, relational concepts
2.2. The structure of categories of near-synonyms
2.3. Prototypes for near-synonyms
3. A radial structure for the category try in Russian
4. Prototype effects in a radial category
4.1. Is there a prototypical attempt?
4.2. A proposal for scales of variation between elements in clusters
4.2.1. Try, try again, [You Could Succeed]
4.2.2. Don't bother trying, [You Won't Succeed]
4.2.3. Try as you might, [You Can't Succeed]
5. Ways of trying: what language reveals about attempts
6. Beyond Behavioral Profiles
1. Behavioral Profiles' prediction accuracy
1.1. Evaluating the predictive success of the BP approach
1.1.1. A new statistical technique for an adapted try-dataset
1.1.2. Predicting verb classification
1.2. Assessing the impact of the individual variables and variable levels
1.2.1. Pytat'sja versus the rest
1.2.2. Starat'sja versus the rest
1.2.3. Probovat' versus the rest
1.2.4. Silit'sja versus the rest
1.2.5. Norovit' versus the rest
1.2.6. Poryvat'sja versus the rest
1.2.7. Summary
2. How words contrive to and constrain constructions
2.1. Atypical arguments?
2.1.1. Exploring constructional variation
2.1.2. Back to the roots
2.2. Building blocks meet something larger
2.2.1. Constructional patterning
2.2.2. Contextual patterning
2.3. A(nother) cline
3. Intuitions or clusters?
3.1. What shapes our intentions?
3.1.1. Parameters and Method
3.1.2. Introducing intentions
3.2. An overall cluster solution
3.3. Clustering selected tags
3.4. Conclusion
4. Clusters in the mind?
4.1. Solovyev and Bajras¡eva's (2007) "psycho-semantic" follow-up of Divjak and Gries (2006)
4.2. Experimental validation for the existence of lexical clusters
4.2.1. Sorting tasks
4.2.2. Gap-filling
4.3. Mental correlates of corpus-based lexical clusters
5. By way of summary
6. What does language have to offer the learner?
Appendix
References
Author index
Subject index

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