Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches / / ed. by Dylan Glynn, Kerstin Fischer.

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 wel...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 46
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Physical Description:1 online resource (395 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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