Linguistic Profiles : : Going from Form to Meaning via Statistics / / Julia Kuznetsova.
The monograph investigates the relationship between form and meaning in different domains and centers on a group of methods referred to as “linguistic profiles” that have been developed recently by researchers at the University of Tromsø. These methods are based on the observation that there is a st...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of content -- Note on corpora, statistical methods and databases -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic profiles -- 3. Grammatical profiling and gender stereotypes -- 4. Semantic profiling, predictability and prototypicality -- 5. Constructional profiling and aspectual pairs -- 6. Collostructional profiling -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Subject Index -- Index of Russian verbs |
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Summary: | The monograph investigates the relationship between form and meaning in different domains and centers on a group of methods referred to as “linguistic profiles” that have been developed recently by researchers at the University of Tromsø. These methods are based on the observation that there is a strong correlation between semantic and distributional properties of linguistic units. This book discusses grammatical, semantic, constructional, collostructional and diachronic profiles. Linguistic profiles as a group of methods are based on recent developments in the area of cognitive and functional linguistics: 1) form in language always has a relation to meaning, 2) a categorical approach to language is replaced with an understanding of language as a gradient phenomenon, which is investigated via statistics, 3) grammar is seen as a usage-based phenomenon. Throughout the book we see that each of the profiles determines a correlation between certain forms and certain meanings. By studying the distribution of different forms we can uncover the semantic restrictions standing behind them. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110361858 9783110762518 9783110700985 9783110742961 9783110439687 9783110438710 |
ISSN: | 1861-4132 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110361858 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Julia Kuznetsova. |