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Corpus Methods for Semantics : Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy.
This text offers an introduction to binary logistic regression, a confirmatory technique for statistically modelling the effect of one or several predictors on a binary response variable. It is explained why logistic regression is exceptionally well suited for the comparison of near-synonyms in corp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Human cognitive processing.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Corpus Methods for Semantics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Outline; 1. Aim of the volume; 2. Structure and summary; References; Section 1. Polysemy and synonymy; Polysemy and synonymy: Cognitive theory and corpus method; 1. Introduction: Theory and method; 2. Polysemy and synonymy: Definition, object and operationalisation; 3. Complexity and sampling: The need for quantification; 4. Modelling meaning. Multidimensional patterns and prototype effects; References; Competing 'transfer' constructions in Dutch: The case of ont-verbs; 1. Introduction.
- 2. Introducing the Dutch ont-verbs3. Methodology of the case study; 4. The results of the present-day investigation; 5. A diachronic perspective; 6. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Rethinking constructional polysemy: The case of the English conative construction; 1. Introduction; 2. The conative construction; 3. A collexeme analysis of the conative construction; 4. A collexeme analysis of verb-class-specific constructions; 5. Conclusion; References; Quantifying polysemy in cognitive sociolinguistics; 1. Polysemy; 2. Scope of the study; 3. Data and method.
- 4. Hierarchical agglomerative clustering5. Hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis of collected data; 6. Logistic regression; 7. Decision tree analysis; 8. Summary and discussion of results; References; The many uses of run: Corpus methods and Socio-Cognitive Semantics; 1. Introduction; 2. Usage-based Cognitive Semantics; 3. Case study: run in America and Britain in diaries and conversation; 4. Summary; References; Visualizing distances in a set of near-synonyms: Rather, quite, fairly, and pretty; 1. Introduction; 2. Previous research; 3. Method; 4. Results; 5. Discussion and conclusion.
- The semasiological structure of Polish myśleć 'to think': A study in verb-prefix semantics1. Introduction; 2. Introspective conceptual analysis of the prefixed forms of myśleć 'to think' in Polish; 3. The corpus; 4. Feature annotation; 5. Multivariate analysis of the results of feature annotation; 6. Conclusion; References; A multifactorial corpus analysis of grammatical synonymy: The Estonian adessive and adposition peal ; 1. Introduction; 2. The Estonian adessive case and the adposition peal 'on'; 3. The data sample; 4. Corpus-linguistic operationalizations and monofactorial results.