An empiricist’s view of the ontology of lexical-semantic relations
- Taking a usage-based perspective, lexical-semantic relations and other aspects of lexical meaning are characterised as emerging from language use. At the same time, they shape language use and therefore become manifest in corpus data. This paper discusses how this mutual influence can be taken into account in the study of these relations. An empirically driven methodology is proposed that is, as an initial step, based on self-organising clustering of comprehensive collocation profiles. Several examples demonstrate how this methodology may guide linguists in explicating implicit knowledge of complex semantic structures. Although these example analyses are conducted for written German, the overall methodology is language-independent.
Author: | Cyril Belica, Holger Keibel, Marc KupietzGND, Rainer Perkuhn |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-48041 |
ISBN: | 978 90 272 3138 3 |
Parent Title (English): | Lexical-Semantic Relations |
Series (Serial Number): | Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa (28) |
Publisher: | Benjamins |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Editor: | Petra Storjohann |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2016/04/25 |
First Page: | 115 |
Last Page: | 144 |
Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich. / Due to copyright reasons the full-text of the article is not freely accessible. |
DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik |
Open Access?: | nein |
Licence (German): | Urheberrechtlich geschützt |