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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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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 2.143) 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
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Using automated methods to explore the social stratification of anglicisms in Spanish Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Jacqueline Serigos
Abstract Traditionally, automated methods for loanword detection have not received an abundance of attention within the field of language contact. However, as research on loanwords has begun utilizing corpora with word counts in the millions, these generous quantities of data pose challenges for traditional methods of linguistic annotation. This paper presents a method for automatically detecting anglicisms
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The traceback method and the early constructicon: theoretical and methodological considerations Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Nikolas Koch,Stefan Hartmann,Antje Endesfelder Quick
Abstract Usage-based approaches assume that children’s early utterances are item-based. This has been demonstrated in a number of studies using the traceback method. In this approach, a small amount of “target utterances” from a child language corpus is “traced back” to earlier utterances. Drawing on a case study of German, this paper provides a critical evaluation of the method from a usage-based
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On the benefits of structural equation modeling for corpus linguists Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Tove Larsson,Luke Plonsky,Gregory R. Hancock
Abstract The present article aims to introduce structural equation modeling, in particular measured variable path models, and discuss their great potential for corpus linguists. Compared to other techniques commonly employed in the field such as multiple regression, path models are highly flexible and enable testing a priori hypotheses about causal relations between multiple independent and dependent
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Extravagant “fake” morphemes in Dutch. Morphological productivity, semantic profiles and categorical flexibility Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Kristel Van Goethem,Muriel Norde
AbstractDutch features several morphemes with “privative” semantics that occur as left-hand members in compounds (e.g.,imitatieleer‘imitation leather’,kunstgras‘artificial grass’,nepjuwelen‘fake jewels’). Some of these “fake” morphemes display great categorical flexibility and innovative adjectival uses.Nep, for instance, is synchronically attested as an inflected adjective (e.g.,neppe cupcake‘fake
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Profiling the Chinese causative construction with rang (讓), shi (使) and ling (令) using frame semantic features Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Andreas Liesenfeld,Meichun Liu,Chu-Ren Huang
Abstract This behavioural profiling (BP) study examines the use of the near-synonyms rang (讓), shi (使) and ling (令), three ways to express cause-effect relationships in Chinese. Instead of using an out-of-the-box BP design, we present a modified approach to profiling that includes a range of frame semantic features that aim to capture variation of slot fillers of this construction. The study investigates
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Language production experiments as tools for corpus construction: A contrastive study of complementizer agreement Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Matthias Fingerhuth,Ludwig Maximilian Breuer
Abstract The investigation of linguistic phenomena in corpora of spontaneous speech is sometimes hindered by corpus size or by the complexity of the factors influencing their occurrence. Language Production Experiments (LPEs) can specifically elicit such phenomena and can therefore be used to build corpora that allow for their investigation. Yet experiments are a wide category that covers very different
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Words, constructions and corpora: Network representations of constructional semantics for Mandarin space particles Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Alvin Cheng-Hsien Chen
Abstract In this study, we aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of network science in exploring the emergence of constructional semantics from the connectedness and relationships between linguistic units. With Mandarin locative constructions (MLCs) as a case study, we extracted constructional tokens from a representative corpus, including their respective space particles (SPs) and the head nouns of
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A connectionist approach to analogy. On the modal meaning of periphrastic do in Early Modern English Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Sara Budts
Abstract This paper innovatively charts the analogical influence of the modal auxiliaries on the regulation of periphrastic do in Early Modern English by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a flavour of connectionist models known for their applications in computer vision. CNNs can be harnessed to model the choice between competitors in a linguistic alternation by extracting not only the
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Phraseology in a cross-linguistic perspective: A diachronic and corpus-based account Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Andersen Gisle
Abstract English exerts great influence on other languages at the lexical level, as seen from extensive borrowing of terminology and everyday words into many languages (i.e. Anglicisms such as swap, blog, etc.). Although much less studied, it is also clear that the “phrasicon” (Granger, Sylviane. 2009. Comment on: learner corpora: A window onto the L2 phrasicon. In Andy Barfield & Henrik Gyllstad (eds
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Towards a dynamic behavioral profile: A diachronic study of polysemous sentir in Spanish Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Marlies Jansegers, Stefan Th. Gries
Abstract This study examines the diachronic evolution of the polysemy of the Spanish verb sentir (‘to feel’) by means of a corpus-based dynamic behavioral profile (BP) analysis. Methodologically, it presents the first application of the BP approach to historical data and proposes some methodological innovations not only within the current body of research in historical semantics but also with regard
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Surplus interword phonological similarity in English multiword units Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Seth Lindstromberg
Abstract Previous studies found that English figurative idioms alliterate at above chance levels. To permit estimation of amounts of surplus alliteration Gries (2011) calculated baseline levels using an analytic method. This article reports a follow-on investigation covering types of multiword unit (MWU) and types of interword, intraMWU phonological similarity (PhS) considered neither by Gries nor
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Academic language in Catalan students’ research reports across levels of study Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Ana M. Pujol Dahme, Moisés Selfa
Abstract When students engage in a research community of practice they not only have to master academic register but also discourse features embodied in the research genre. This corpus-based study examines lexico-grammatical features and stance and engagement markers in 54 Catalan (Romance language) research reports in biology, from high school twelfth-graders and university master theses’ writers
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Underuse of English verb–particle constructions in an L2 learner corpus: Focus on structural patterns and one-word preference Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 Min-Chang Sung
Abstract This study analyzes English verb–particle constructions (VPC) in a learner and a native corpus of argumentative essays, focusing on two important factors: structural patterns of VPCs and preference for one-word verbs (e. g., delay vs. put off). The results showed that while every structural type of VPC was significantly underused by L2 learners, greater underuse was observed with discontinuous
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Constructions and the problem of discovery: A case for the paradigmatic Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (IF 2.143) Pub Date : 2020-05-27 David Wible, Nai-Lung Tsao
Abstract Much of the patterned use of language occupies a poorly charted middle ground of usages that are neither frozen, one-off items listable in dictionaries nor products of maximally general rules found in grammars. Similarly, these usages fly below the radar of modular theories of language that make a strict distinction between items in a lexicon and the rules of syntax for combining them. Early