Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2010
VI, 395 pages
978-3-11-022642-3 (ISBN)
Description
In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research presented in the volume constitutes an important step towards an Empirical Cognitive Semantics.
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"Overall, this volume is an important contribution to the development of empirical Cognitive Semantics. This collection of high-quality papers provides the reader with an insight into the most important empirical approaches in corpus-driven semantic research."Natalia Levshina in: Linguist List 20.3011More details
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Dylan Glynn, Lund University, Sweden; Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Content
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Corpus-driven Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the field
- Quantitative methods in Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the volume
- Section I Corpus methods in Cognitive Semantics
- The doctor and the semantician
- Balancing Acts: Empirical pursuits in Cognitive Linguistics
- Does frequency in text instantiate entrenchment in the cognitive system?
- Section II Advancing the science: Theoretical questions
- The aspectual coercion of the English Durative Adverbial
- The force dynamics of English complement clauses: A Collostructional Analysis
- Accounting for the role of situation in language use in a Cognitive Semantic representation of sentence mood
- Exemplars and analogy: Semantic extension in constructional networks
- Section III Advancing the science: Methodological questions
- Marrying cognitive-linguistic theory and corpus-based methods: On the compositionality of English V NP-idioms
- Testing the hypothesis. Objectivity and verification in usage-based Cognitive Semantics
- Beyond the dative alternation: The semantics of the Dutch aan-Dative
- Corpus-based evidence for an idiosyncratic aspect-modality relation in Russian
- Section IV Towards an empirical Cognitive Semantics
- Quantitative approaches in usage-based Cognitive Semantics: Myths, erroneous assumptions, and a proposal
- Empirical cognitive semantics: Some thoughts
- Backmatter
