Linguistic Profiles : : Going from Form to Meaning via Statistics / / Julia Kuznetsova.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Kuznetsova, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 53
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.