Linguistic profiles : going from form to meaning via statistics / Julia Kuznetsova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuznetsova, Julia, author.

Series:

Cognitive linguistics research ; 53.

Cognitive linguistics research, 1861-4132 ; volume 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Statistical methods.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 2, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110393484

3110393484

9783110361858

311036185X

OCLC:

919297749