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A corpus-based study on semantic and cognitive features of bei sentences in Mandarin Chinese Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Yonghui Xie, Ruochen Niu, Haitao Liu
Bei sentences in Mandarin Chinese with SOV word order have attracted extensive interest. However, their semantic features lacked quantitative evidence and their cognitive features received insufficient attention. Therefore, the current study aims to quantitatively investigate the semantic and cognitive features through the analysis of nine annotated factors in a corpus. The results regarding bei sentences
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The red dress is cute: why subjective adjectives are more often predicative Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Lelia Glass
Which adjectives tend to occur as attributive (the cute/red dress) versus predicative (the dress is cute/red) and why? Building on findings from Wiegand et al. (2013. Predicative adjectives: An unsupervised criterion to extract subjective adjectives. In Lucy Vanderwende, Hal DauméIII & Katrin Kirchhoff (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational
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Verb influence on French wh-placement: a parallel corpus study Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Jan Fliessbach, Johanna Rockstroh
Our study investigates the effect of French verb lemmata on the preverbal (QV) or postverbal (VQ) positioning of interrogative forms equivalent to English ‘what’ (que, quoi, and related forms) within a French–Spanish parallel corpus of subtitles. We highlight and illustrate the corpus’s utility for studying less frequent verbs in combination with specific wh-forms. Our findings suggest that less frequent
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Idiosyncratic entrenchment: tracing change in constructional schematicity with nested random effects Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Svetlana Vetchinnikova
Usage-based constructionist approaches see language as an inventory of constructions at different levels of schematicity learned from the input. If so, personal constructicons should vary as a function of usage. Repeated use and chunking/entrenchment of concrete instances should lead to reanalysis of their internal structure and change in the level of schematicity. This paper exploits the reduction
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A radically usage-based, collostructional approach to assessing the differences between negative modal contractions and their parent forms Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Robert Daugs, David Lorenz
Starting from the premise that English negative modal contractions constitute partly variable patterns of associations that include both the preceding subject and the following verb infinitive, the study sets out to investigate distributional differences between can’t, shouldn’t, and won’t and their corresponding uncontracted parent forms. Given that some configurations are assumed to correlate with
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Expressing smells in (American) English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Doris Eveline Schönefeld
The paper reports on a study of the usage of smell verbs over the last 200 years by speakers of American English. The focus is on how the expression of smell changes over time and what this reveals about the way speakers conceptualize and assess smells. The study is based on usage data from the COHA (Corpus of Historical American English). They were quantitatively analysed employing the methods of
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Transfer five ways: applications of multiple distinctive collexeme analysis to the dative alternation in Mandarin Chinese Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Shengyu Liao, Stefan Th. Gries, Stefanie Wulff
The dative alternation has been extensively studied in the world’s languages, and the meanings of the verbs participating in the alternation have been shown to play a key role in determining its argument realization options. The present paper presents a multiple distinctive collexeme analysis approach to the dative alternation in Mandarin Chinese, which involves a choice of one of five functionally
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CLLT ‘versus’ Corp ora and IJCL: a (half serious) keyness analysis Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Stefanie Wulff, Stefan Th. Gries
In this introduction to the special issue celebrating CLLT’s 20th anniversary, we look back and forward in time. To look back, we present the results of a (tongue-in-cheek) corpus-linguistic analysis of about 10 years worth of data of research published in CLLT, IJCL, and Corpora in order to distill the “essence” of CLLT for the reader. As an added bonus, we use the opportunity to discuss ways to improve
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Register and the dual nature of functional correspondence: accounting for text-linguistic variation between registers, within registers, and without registers Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Jesse Egbert, Douglas Biber, Daniel Keller, Marianna Gracheva
During the past 20 years, corpus linguistic research on register variation has yielded important theoretical advances. The first part of this paper discusses these advances and the cumulative body of research that has produced them. In the second part of the paper, we focus on the goals of research on register variation. The traditional goal of the text-linguistic (TxtLx) approach to linguistic variation
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Learner corpus research: a critical appraisal and roadmap for contributing (more) to SLA research agendas Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Magali Paquot
Over the past decade, learner corpora have gained recognition as valuable data sources in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research. This development can be attributed to significant progress in Learner Corpus Research (LCR). However, there is still substantial work to be done. This article highlights key issues essential for sustaining the relevance of learner corpora in SLA. More particularly, I
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Corpus linguistics and the social sciences Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Tony McEnery, Gavin Brookes
Corpus linguistics, with its methodological orientation towards the empirical analysis of language based on large text collections, has the potential to offer significant tools for addressing real-world problems across various social science domains, including climate change, criminology, healthcare and policy making. Despite this potential, the integration of corpus linguistics into social science
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Corpus-based discourse analysis: from meta-reflection to accountability Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Monika Bednarek, Martin Schweinberger, Kelvin K. H. Lee
Recent years have seen an increase in data and method reflection in corpus-based discourse analysis. In this article, we first take stock of some of the issues arising from such reflection (covering concepts such as triangulation, objectivity/subjectivity, replication, transparency, reflexivity, consistency). We then introduce a new ‘accountability’ framework for use in corpus-based discourse analysis
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The distributional properties of long nominal compounds in scientific articles: an investigation based on the uniform information density hypothesis Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 John Gamboa, Kristina Braun, Juhani Järvikivi, Shanley E. M. Allen
Nominal compounds are a structure commonly used in scientific texts. Despite their commonality, very little is known about how they are distributed in scientific articles. Based on the Uniform Information Density hypothesis, which states that speakers communicate information at a constant rate, avoiding peaks and troughs of information transmission, we predict that nominal compounds should cluster
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The counting principle makes number words unique Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Mira Ariel, Natalia Levshina
Following Ariel (2021. Why it’s hard to construct ad hoc number concepts. In Caterina Mauri, Ilaria Fiorentini, & Eugenio Goria (eds.), Building categories in interaction: Linguistic resources at work, 439–462. Amsterdam: John Benjamins), we argue that number words manifest distinct distributional patterns from open-class lexical items. When modified, open-class words typically take selectors (as in
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Corpus linguistics meets historical linguistics and construction grammar: how far have we come, and where do we go from here? Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Martin Hilpert
This paper aims to give an overview of corpus-based research that investigates processes of language change from the theoretical perspective of Construction Grammar. Starting in the early 2000s, a dynamic community of researchers has come together in order to contribute to this effort. Among the different lines of work that have characterized this enterprise, this paper discusses the respective roles
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A collostructional approach to Japanese noun-modifying clause construction use and acquisition: a learner corpus study Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Nicole C. De Los Reyes, Ute Römer-Barron
Japanese features a general noun-modifying clause construction (NMCC) with a more versatile range of semantic and pragmatic interpretations than equivalent constructions in other languages. Motivated by the learning challenge NMCCs pose to Japanese as a foreign language (JFL) learners, this article examines speech data from the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS) to compare
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Transfer of collostructions: the case of causative constructions Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Gaëtanelle Gilquin
In an attempt to identify possible cases of collostructional transfer in the use of the causative construction [X make Y Vinf] by French-speaking learners of English, two types of analyses are combined in this study. First, a contrastive collostructional analysis compares the verbs occurring in the [Vinf] slot of the English construction and its French equivalent, [X faire Vinf Y]. Second, a contrastive
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Revisiting N waiting to happen: word, construction, and corpus choices in a collostructional analysis Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John Newman
In undertaking any collostructional analysis, a researcher must make decisions concerning the properties of words, constructions, and corpora. Each of these crucial aspects of the analysis can be dealt with in alternative ways: words can be investigated as either lemmas or inflected forms; a construction can be characterized in alternative ways (reliance on semantics or syntax or some combination thereof
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Well, maybe you shouldn’t go around shaving poodles: collostructional semantic and discursive prosody in the go (a)round Ving and go (a)round and V constructions Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
This article presents a corpus-based study of the go (a)round Ving- and go (a)round and V-constructions in American English. More specifically, it addresses the possibility of the constructions serving as pragmatic markers of stance through the collocational phenomenon of semantic prosody. It is argued that the notions of internal and external constructional properties from the early days of construction
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Alternation in the Mandarin disposal constructions: quantifying their evolutionary dynamics across twelve centuries Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Meili Liu, Hubert Cuyckens
Despite extensive research on the ba-construction in Chinese, the diachronic change in the alternation between the ba and jiang constructions has received little attention. The present study takes a multifactorial approach to examine the factors that probabilistically condition the alternation based on diachronic data across twelve centuries. The results suggest two general trends. First, the odds
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I couldn’t help but wonder: do modals and negation attract? Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Ulrike Schneider
The present paper focusses on the historical development of the relationship between the English core modals can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might and must and the negator not. It explores whether semantic and morphosyntactic factors, particularly the emergence of do-support in Early Modern English, the increase in the popularity of contracted forms such as won’t in the nineteenth century
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Truth be told: a corpus-based study of the cross-linguistic colexification of representational and (inter)subjective meanings Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Barend Beekhuizen, Maya Blumenthal, Lee Jiang, Anna Pyrtchenkov, Jana Savevska
The study of crosslinguistic variation in word meaning often focuses on representational and concrete meanings. We argue other kinds of word meanings (e.g., abstract and (inter)subjective meanings) can be fruitfully studied in translation corpora, and present a quantitative procedure for doing so. We focus on the cross-linguistic patterns for lemmas pertaining to truth and reality (English true and
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Reliable detection and quantification of selective forces in language change Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
Language change is a cultural evolutionary process in which variants of linguistic variables change in frequency through processes analogous to mutation, selection and genetic drift. In this work, we apply a recently-introduced method to corpus data to quantify the strength of selection in specific instances of historical language change. We first demonstrate, in the context of English irregular verbs
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Lexical borrowing in Korean: a diachronic approach based on a corpus analysis Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Yoonjung Oh, Hyunjung Son
Loanwords are lexical terms borrowed from foreign languages by transliterating the original sound of the borrowed words with the recipient language’s consonants and vowels. This paper focuses on lexical borrowing in the Korean language from a diachronic perspective. Based on approximately 9,500 Korean loanwords extracted from a corpus of women’s magazine articles of residential sections (the Korean
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Present perfect and preterit variation in the Spanish of Lima and Mexico city: findings from a corpus analysis Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Anna Mastrantuono, Brendan Regan
In many languages, the present perfect has grammaticalized, gradually displacing the preterit. Within Spanish, this has been documented with the grammaticalization of the present perfect in Peninsular Spanish. To examine this possibility in two Latin American varieties, this study examined present perfect/preterit variation of 36 speakers from Lima and Mexico City from the PRESEEA corpus. While Lima
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The linguistic organization of grammatical text complexity: comparing the empirical adequacy of theory-based models Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Douglas Biber, Tove Larsson, Gregory R. Hancock
Although there is a long tradition of research analyzing the grammatical complexity of texts (in both linguistics and applied linguistics), there is surprisingly little consensus on the nature of complexity. Many studies have disregarded syntactic (and structural) distinctions in their analyses of grammatical text complexity, treating it instead as if it were a single unified construct. However, other
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The blurring of the boundaries: changes in verb/noun heterosemy in Recent English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Bin Shao, Jing Zheng, Hendrik De Smet
Conversion is a common feature of present-day English, leading to many ‘heterosemous’ words that express related meanings across multiple word classes. Especially common is verb/noun heterosemy, as in flow or hand, both of which can be used as verbs or as nouns. The prevalence of verb/noun heterosemy sets English apart from closely related Germanic languages and is one respect in which English behaves
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Let my speakers talk: metalinguistic activity can indicate semantic change Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Israela Becker
In the absence of a diachronic corpus or a synchronic corpus tagged for speakers’ age, substantiating the presence of semantic change and the stage of change ― initial or advanced ― are challenging tasks. In the present study I introduce three methods for overcoming such difficulties by extracting various kinds of evidence from a synchronic corpus not tagged for speakers’ age. All three methods are
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A multifactorial aspectual analysis of verb concatenation with imperfective markers zhe in Mandarin Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Junjie Jin, Fuyin Thomas Li
As a cognitive ability to construe events in alternate ways, aspectuality has aroused many researchers’ academic attention; however, the concatenation of aspect markers in a clause is understudied in previous studies. The present paper follows a bidimensional approach of aspect to conduct a corpus-based aspectual analysis of verb concatenation with imperfective markers zhe (henceforth VCIMs zhe) in
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To drop or not to drop? Predicting the omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future construction Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Evie Coussé, Alexander Koplenig, Yvonne Adesam
We investigate the optional omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future tense construction. During the last two decades the frequency of omission has been rapidly increasing, and this process has received considerable attention in the literature. We test whether the knowledge which has been accumulated can yield accurate predictions of language variation and change. We extracted all occurrences
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Evaluation of keyness metrics: performance and reliability Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Lukas Sönning
The methodological debates surrounding keyword analysis have given rise to a wide range of keyness metrics. The present paper delineates four dimensions of keyness, which distinguish between frequency- and dispersion-related perspectives. Existing measures are then organized according to these dimensions and evaluated with regard to their performance on a specific keyword analysis task: The identification
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Seeing the wood for the trees: predictive margins for random forests Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Lukas Sönning, Jason Grafmiller
Classification trees and random forests offer a number of attractive features to corpus data analysts. However, the way in which these models are typically reported – a decision tree and/or set of variable importance scores – offers insufficient information if interest centers on the (form of) relationship between (multiple) predictors and the outcome. This paper develops predictive margins as an interpretative
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Large-scale patterns of number use in spoken and written English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter, Jeannette Littlemore, Marcus Perlman, Jack Grieve
This paper describes patterns of number use in spoken and written English and the main factors that contribute to these patterns. We analysed more than 1.7 million occurrences of numbers between 0 and a billion in the British National Corpus, including conversational speech, presentational speech (e.g., lectures, interviews), imaginative writing (e.g., fiction), and informative writing (e.g., academic
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A corpus-based quantitative study of numeral classifiers in Nepali Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Krishna Prasad Parajuli, Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Nepali is typologically rare in terms of nominal classification systems, as it is one of the few languages of the world having simultaneously two gender systems (human/non-human, masculine/feminine) and one numeral classifier system (distinguishing features such as human, round-shaped objects, and long objects among others). Such a rare co-occurrence of different nominal classification systems is highly
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They worked their hardest on the construction’s history: Superlative Objoid Constructions in Late Modern American English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
English verbs can combine with an object-like (or Objoid) element consisting of a possessive and a superlative. These Superlative Objoids do not add a participant to the event but function like manner adverbs (they work their hardest, i.e. they work extremely hard). This paper is the first to use diachronic evidence from a corpus of Late Modern American English to trace the recent history of Superlative
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Register variation explains stylometric authorship analysis Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Jack Grieve
For centuries, investigations of disputed authorship have shown that people have unique styles of writing. Given sufficient data, it is generally possible to distinguish between the writings of a small group of authors, for example, through the multivariate analysis of the relative frequencies of common function words. There is, however, no accepted explanation for why this type of stylometric analysis
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Metaphorical language change is Self-Organized Criticality Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Xuri Tang, Huifang Ye
One way to resolve the actuation problem of metaphorical language change is to provide a statistical profile of metaphorical constructions and generative rules with antecedent conditions. Based on arguments from the view of language as complex systems and the dynamic view of metaphor, this paper argues that metaphorical language change qualifies as a Self-Organized Criticality state and the linguistic
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Clausal and phrasal coordination in recent American English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Merja Kytö, Erik Smitterberg
Several studies have shown that there is considerable cross-genre variation as regards what linguistic units tend to be coordinated by and. While literate, expository writing favors coordination of phrasal units such as noun phrases, coordinated units are more often clausal (e.g., main or subordinate clauses) in speech-related texts. This difference has been attested in studies that focus exclusively
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Register in corpus linguistics: the role and legacy of Douglas Biber Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Susan Conrad
This article provides an overview of Douglas Biber’s work on register and his central role in establishing register as both an empirical focus and a theoretical construct in corpus linguistics. I identity four general phases of his work. Each has a slightly different emphasis, but each also advances intertwined threads of research that lead to an increased understanding of register variation. Biber’s
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“Thank you for the terrific party!” – An analysis of Hungarian negative emotive words Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Martina Katalin Szabó, Veronika Vincze, Károly Bibok
The term negative emotive word refers to those words that, on their own, i.e. without context, have a semantic content that may be associated with negative emotion, but sometimes they lose it partly or wholly. In the literature negative emotive words are mainly discussed within the group of intensifiers, e.g. awfully good. In the present paper, we call this phenomenon polarity loss. At the same time
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A variationist perspective on the comparative complexity of four registers at the intersection of mode and formality Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Alexandra Engel
In this paper, we operationalize register differences at the intersection of formality and mode, and distinguish four broad register categories: spoken informal (conversations), spoken formal (parliamentary debates), written informal (blogs), and written formal (newspaper articles). We are specifically interested in the comparative probabilistic/variationist complexity of these registers – when speakers
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Towards a dynamic behavioral profile of the Mandarin Chinese temperature term re: a diachronic semasiological approach Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Meili Liu
Abstract This study adopts a corpus-based behavioral profile approach, combining multifactorial usage-feature analysis with frequency-based quantitative analysis, to investigate the diachronic semasiological variation of the Mandarin Chinese temperature term 热 re ‘hot’. The result shows a dynamic behavioral profile, i.e., both the usage patterns and the semasiological structural weight of senses have
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The distribution of /w/ and /ʍ/ in Scottish Standard English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Zeyu Li,Ulrike Gut
Abstract The Scottish English phoneme inventory is generally claimed to have a /ʍ/-/w/ contrast, although several studies have suggested that this historical contrast is weakening for Scottish English speakers in the urban areas of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Little is known about whether the /ʍ/-/w/ contrast is maintained in supraregional Scottish Standard English (SSE). This study sets out to
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Inferring case paradigms in Koalib with computational classifiers Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Nicolas Quint,Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Abstract The object case inflection in Koalib (Niger-Congo) represents complex patterns that involve phoneme position, syllable structure, and tonal pattern. Few attempts have been made with qualitative and quantitative approaches to identify the rules of the object case paradigms in Koalib. In the current study, information on phonemes, tones, and syllables are automatically extracted from a Koalib
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Generating semantic maps through multidimensional scaling: linguistic applications and theory Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Martijn van der Klis,Jos Tellings
Abstract This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical technique that represents objects (lexical items, linguistic contexts, languages, etc.) as points in a space so that close similarity between the objects corresponds to close distances between the corresponding points
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The theme-recipient alternation in Chinese: tracking syntactic variation across seven centuries Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Yi Li,Benedikt Szmrecsanyi,Weiwei Zhang
Abstract Previous research has tracked the history of the theme-recipient alternation (or: “dative” alternation) in Chinese, but few studies have embedded their analysis in a probabilistic variationist framework. Against this backdrop, we explore the language-internal and language-external factors that probabilistically influence the alternation between theme-first and recipient-first ordering in a
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Modelling incipient probabilistic grammar change in real time: the grammaticalisation of possessive pronouns in European Spanish locative adverbial constructions Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Matti Marttinen Larsson
Abstract The present paper provides a methodological case study on how underlying incipient grammar change might be discerned even when frequencies of the incoming variant are apparently marginal and stable. Analysing the spread of tonic possessive pronouns in complements of locative adverbial constructions in European Spanish from a probabilistic perspective, more than 11,000 locative constructions
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Primed progressives? Predicting aspectual choice in World Englishes Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-28 Paula Rautionaho,Marianne Hundt
Abstract This corpus-based study focuses on the progressive:nonprogressive alternation from a novel perspective, i.e. the effect of syntactic priming. We annotated a dataset of 5,000 progressive and nonprogressive occurrences in ten different varieties of English from the International Corpus of English for variables such as Aktionsart categories and elements related to priming and subjected the data
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Transitivity on a continuum: the transitivity index as a predictor of Spanish causatives Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Gustavo Guajardo
Abstract This paper contributes to the study of transitivity as a general property of the clause. Unlike most previous work on the subject, however, transitivity in the present article is used to study a lexical alternation, namely the two causative predicates dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ in Spanish. To do this, I use the transitivity index (TI), a weighted continuous measure of transitivity based
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Switch-reference and its role in referential choice in Mbyá Guaraní narratives Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Guillaume Thomas,Gregory Antono,Laurestine Bradford,Angelika Kiss,Darragh Winkelman
Abstract Switch-reference has been analyzed as a reference tracking mechanism, whose main function is to avoid ambiguity of reference. One domain where this function has been argued to manifest itself is referential choice. Kibrik (Kibrik, Andrej. 2011. Reference in discourse. Oxford: Oxford University Press) notably proposed that switch-reference marking plays the role of a referential aid, which
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Alternations emerge and disappear: the network of dispossession constructions in the history of English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Eva Zehentner
Abstract This paper focuses on two main issues regarding syntactic alternations and their development over time. On the one hand, it discusses the diachronic implications of alternations as involving multiple (rather than binary) choices. On the other hand, it shows that while studies are typically interested in the emergence of alternation relationships, there are also cases of diachronic loss of
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Exploring semantic differences between the Indonesian prefixes PE- and PEN- using a vector space model Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Karlina Denistia,Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan,R. Harald Baayen
Abstract Indonesian has two prefixes, PE- and PEN-, that are similar in form and meaning, but are probably not allomorphs. In this study, we applied a distributional vector space model to clarify whether these prefixes have discriminable semantics. Comparisons of pairs of words within and across morphologically defined sets of words revealed that cosine similarities of pairs consisting of a word with
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Dependency network-based approach to the implicit structure and semantic diffusion modes of semantic prosody Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Jianpeng Liu,Luyao Zhang,Xiaohui Bai
Abstract This paper studies the implicit structures and the diffusion modes of semantic prosody on the dependency networks of some English words such as cause and their Chinese equivalents. It is found that the structure of semantic prosody is a bi-stratified network consisting of a few large clusters gathering in the center with most nodes of low dependency capability scattered around. With regard
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Adjective–noun compounds in Mandarin: a study on productivity Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Tian Shen,R. Harald Baayen
Abstract In structuralist linguistics, compounds are argued not to constitute morphological categories, due to the absence of systematic form-meaning correspondences. This study investigates subsets of compounds for which systematic form-meaning correspondences are present: adjective–noun compounds in Mandarin. We show that there are substantial differences in the productivity of these compounds. One
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Investigating genre distinctions through discourse distance and discourse network Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Kun Sun,Rong Wang,Wenxin Xiong
Abstract The notion of genre has been widely explored using quantitative methods from both lexical and syntactical perspectives. However, discourse structure has rarely been used to examine genre. Mostly concerned with the interrelation of discourse units, discourse structure can play a crucial role in genre analysis. Nevertheless, few quantitative studies have explored genre distinctions from a discourse
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Lexically specific accumulation in memory of word and segment speech rates Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-29 Esther L. Brown,William D. Raymond,Earl Kjar Brown,Richard J. File-Muriel
Abstract Variability abounds in speech. According to usage-based accounts, lexical representations reflect phonetic variants of words resulting from contextual conditioning. Because faster speech contexts promote durational shortening of words and segments, words that occur more often in fast speech may be more reduced than words commonly used in slow speech, independent of the target’s contextual
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The Information Structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies. An empirical perspective Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-28 Mónica Domínguez,Mireia Farrús,Leo Wanner
Abstract The correspondence between the communicative intention of a speaker in terms of Information Structure and the way this speaker reflects communicative aspects by means of prosody have been a fruitful field of study in Linguistics. However, text-to-speech applications still lack the variability and richness found in human speech in terms of how humans display their communication skills. Some
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A corpus-based study of the time orientation of qian “front” and hou “back” in Chinese Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Shuqiong Wu
Abstract Based on corpus data and adopting a behavioral profile approach, this study examines the time orientation of Chinese words qian “front” and hou “back.” The corpus analysis yields the following findings. First, the primary temporal meaning of qian and hou is indicating time sequence, with qian meaning “earlier” and hou meaning “later.” Second, Chinese speakers tend to conceptualize the future
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Why don’t grammaticalization pathways always recur? Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 Malte Rosemeyer,Eitan Grossman
Abstract Many grammaticalization pathways recur across languages. A prominent explanation for this is that the properties of lexical items determine their developmental pathways. However, it is unclear why these pathways do not always occur. In this article, we ask why English did not undergo a cross-linguistically common grammaticalization pathway, finish > anterior. We operationalize this question
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Pre-emptive interaction in language change and ontogeny: the case of [there is no NP] Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 1.0) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Vittorio Tantucci,Matteo Di Cristofaro
Abstract This study is centred on the pre-emptive dimension of interactional exchanges. Dialogues are not merely characterised by information transmission, they are also constantly informed by pre-emptive attempts to address potential reactions to what is being said. We argue that pre-emptive interaction intersects with intersubjectivity (i.a. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2003. From subjectification to