Aggregating dialectology, typology, and register analysis : linguistic variation in text and speech / edited by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Bernhard Wälchli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, 1976-

Wälchli, Bernhard.

Series:

linguae & litterae

Lingua & litterae ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Dialectology.

Register (Linguistics).

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there is astonishingly little interaction across these fields. But the fourteen contributions in this volume show that these subdisciplines actually share many interests and methodological concerns in common. The chapters specifically converge in the following ways: First, they all seek to explore linguistic variation, within or across languages. Second, they are based on usage data, that is, on corpora of (more or less) authentic text or speech of different languages or language varieties. Third, all chapters are concerned with the joint analysis (also sometimes known as "aggregation" or "data synthesis") of multiple phenomena, features, or measurements of some sort. And lastly, the contributors all marshal quantitative analysis techniques to analyse the data. In short, the volume explores the text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies, demonstrating that there is much mutual inspiration to be had by thinking outside the disciplinary box.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: The text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies / Wälchli, Bernhard / Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt

Convergence between dialect varieties and dialect groups in the Dutch language area / Heeringa, Wilbert / Hinskens, Frans

A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation / Grieve, Jack

Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars / Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt

Feature-based versus aggregate analyses of the DECTE corpus: Phonological and morphological variability in Tyneside English / Corrigan, Karen P. / Mearns, Adam / Moisl, Hermann

Complex systems in aggregated variation analyses / Kretzschmar, William A.

A weakly supervised multivariate approach to the study of language variation / Diwersy, Sascha / Evert, Stefan / Neumann, Stella

Semantic weighting mechanisms in scalable lexical sociolectometry / Ruette, Tom / Geeraerts, Dirk / Peirsman, Yves / Speelman, Dirk

Temperature in the word space: Sense exploration of temperature expressions using word-space modelling / Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria / Sahlgren, Magnus

The perfect map: Investigating the cross-linguistic distribution of TAME categories in a parallel corpus / Dahl, Östen

Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach / Waldenfels, Ruprecht von

Where Alice fell into: Motion events from a parallel corpus / Verkerk, Annemarie

Algorithmic typology and going from known to similar unknown categories within and across languages / Wälchli, Bernhard

Inducing place distinctions of consonants from their distribution in words / Mayer, Thomas

Laws of language and text in quantitative and synergetic linguistics / Köhler, Reinhard

Appendix

Author index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110372540

3110372541

9783110317558

3110317559

OCLC:

870589900