Lexical variation and change a distributional semantic approach
This volume introduces a systematic framework for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a distributional semantics approach. It presents a comprehensive model of lexical and semantic variation, and uses case studies of Dutch and Spanish to illustrate both the advantages and disadv...
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Introduction
- Part I Theoretical preliminaries
- 1 Lexical variation and the lexeme-lection-lect triangle
- 1.1 Choices of lexicological perspective
- 1.2 Semasiology, conceptual onomasiology, formal onomasiology
- 1.3 Onomasiological profiles and lectometry
- 1.4 The lexicon in language variation research
- 1.5 From cognitive linguistics to cognitive sociolinguistics
- The bottom line
- 2 Distributional semantics and the fog of meaning
- 2.1 From contexts to clusters
- 2.2 The diversity of distributional semantics
- 2.3 Sense determination and semantic indeterminacy
- 2.4 Semantics without meaning
- The bottom line
- Part II Distributional methodology
- 3 Parameters and procedures for token-based distributional semantics
- 3.1 From text to vector space
- 3.2 Linguistically informed parameters
- 3.3 Statistical parameters
- 3.4 From vector space to token clouds
- 3.5 Overview of implemented settings
- The bottom line
- 4 Visual analytics for token-based distributional semantics
- 4.1 Dimensionality reduction for visualization
- 4.2 Selecting representative models
- 4.3 The NephoVis visualization tool
- 4.4 A ShinyApp extension for NephoVis
- The bottom line
- Part III Semasiological and onomasiological explorations
- 5 Making sense of distributional semantics
- 5.1 No single optimal solution
- 5.2 Types of information
- 5.3 Semantic heterogeneity
- 5.4 One cloud, one sense
- 5.5 Prototypical contexts
- 5.6 Semantic profiling
- The bottom line
- 6 The interplay of semasiology and onomasiology
- 6.1 Onomasiology and token clouds
- 6.2 Verbs of destruction in Dutch
- 6.3 Destruction in contemporary Dutch
- 6.4 Destruction across the centuries
- 6.5 The evolution of onomasiological sets
- The bottom line.
- Part IV Lectometric methodology
- 7 Quantifying lectal structure and change
- 7.1 Measuring lectal distances
- 7.2 Standardization and informalization
- 7.3 Lexical diversity and lexical success
- The bottom line
- 8 Lectometry step by step
- 8.1 Selection of near-synonyms
- 8.2 Demarcation of the model space
- 8.3 Fine-tuning profiles
- 8.4 Selection of pruned models
- 8.5 Lectometric measures
- The bottom line
- Part V Lectometric explorations
- 9 Dimensions of standardization
- 9.1 Corpora and concepts
- 9.2 Modelling of token spaces and selection of profiles
- 9.3 Hierarchical standardization and destandardization
- 9.4 Formalization and informalization
- 9.5 Homogenization and dehomogenization
- 9.6 The evolution of Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch
- The bottom line
- 10 Pluricentricity from a quantitative point of view
- 10.1 Spanish as an international language
- 10.2 Corpus and concept selection
- 10.3 Distributional modelling
- 10.4 The impact of model retention
- 10.5 The impact of lexical fields
- 10.6 Pluricentricity and the plurality of models
- The bottom line
- Conclusions
- Software resources
- References
- Index.
