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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464466103321

Autore

Kuznetsova Julia

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039348-4

3-11-036185-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Cognitive linguistics research, , 1861-4132 ; ; volume 53

Classificazione

ER 940

Disciplina

410.72/7

Soggetti

Linguistics - Statistical methods

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.