Inducing linguistic networks from historical corpora. Towards a new method in historical semantics
- In this paper, we experiment with exploring linguistic networks as a new method in historical semantics. Our starting point is a long-term historical corpus (i.e., the Patrologia Patina) which we analyse regarding the conceptual stability of a key concept in medieval literature (i.e., virtus). Most analyses in historical semantics explore small data sets by focusing on narrow contexts of lexical usages, but we propose a more comprehensive method based on lexical networks that represent the underlying documents as a whole. We demonstrate both the topological stability of document-based lexical networks and their usefulness in providing empirical evidence in historical semantics.
Author: | Alexander MehlerORCiDGND, Silke SchwandtORCiDGND, Rüdiger Gleim, Alexandra Ernst |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-129004 |
ISBN: | 978-3-8233-6760-4 |
Parent Title (English): | New methods in historical corpora |
Series (Serial Number): | Korpuslinguistik und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Sprache | Corpus Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language | CLIP (3) |
Publisher: | Narr |
Place of publication: | Tübingen |
Editor: | Paul Bennett, Martin Durrell, Silke Scheible, Richard J. Whitt |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2024/11/11 |
Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
GND Keyword: | Historische Sprachwissenschaft; Korpus <Linguistik>; Semantik |
First Page: | 257 |
Last Page: | 274 |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
Open Access?: | ja |
Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
Licence (German): | ![]() |