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Lexical Variation and Change - A Distributional Semantic Approach
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Lexical Variation and Change - A Distributional Semantic Approach
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected
open access locations. This book introduces a systematic framework
for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a
distributional semantics approach. Distributional semantics
embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals
the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that
idea takes shape in various types of quantitative analysis of the
corpus contexts in which words appear. In this book, the authors
explore how count-based token-level semantic vector spaces, as an
advanced form of such a quantitative methodology, can be applied to
the study of polysemy, lexical variation, and lectometry. What can
distributional models reveal about meaning? How can they be used to
analyse the semantic relationship between near-synonyms, and to
identify strict synonymy? How can they contribute to the study of
lexical variation as a sociolinguistic variable, and to the use of
those variables to measure convergence or divergence between
language varieties? To answer these questions, the book presents a
comprehensive model of lexical and semantic variation, based on the
combination of a semasiological, an onomasiological, and a lectal
dimension. It explains the mechanism of distributional modelling,
both informally and technically, and introduces workflows and
corpus linguistic tools that implement a distributional perspective
in lexical research. Combining a cognitive linguistic interest in
meaning with a sociolinguistic interest in variation, the authors
illustrate this distributional methodology using case studies of
Dutch and Spanish lexical data that focus on the detection of
polysemy, the interaction of semasiological and onomasiological
change, and sociolinguistic issues of lexical standardization and
pluricentricity. Throughout, they highlight both the advantages and
disadvantages of a distributional methodology: on the one hand, it
has great potential to be scaled up for lexical research; on the
other, its outcome does not necessarily neatly correspond with what
would traditionally be considered different senses.
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