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Linguistic Profiles

Going from Form to Meaning via Statistics

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Fachbuch

Buch. Hardcover

2015

XIII, 259 S.

In englischer Sprache

De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-035553-6

Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23 cm

Gewicht: 493 g

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]; 53

Produktbeschreibung

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.