Exemplars and analogy: Semantic extension in constructional networks
- How (and when) do speakers generalise from memorised exemplars of a construction to a productive schema? The present paper presents a novel take on this issue by offering a corpus-based approach to semantic extension processes. Focusing on clusters of German ADJ N expressions involving the heavily polysemous adjective tief ‚deep’, it is shown that type frequency (a commonly used measure of productivity) needs to be relativised to distinct semantic classes within the overall usage spectrum of a given construction in order to predict the occurrence of novel types within a particular region of this spectrum. Some methodological and theoretical implications for usage-based linguistic model building are considered.
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| Author: | Arne Zeschel |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-64929 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110226423.201 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-022641-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches |
| Series (Serial Number): | Cognitive Linguistics Research (46) |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter Mouton |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Dylan Glynn, Kerstin Fischer |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2017/10/04 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | Bedeutungserweiterung productivity; semantic extension; type frequency; usage-based model |
| GND Keyword: | Korrelationsanalyse; Semasiologie; Sprachwandel |
| First Page: | 201 |
| Last Page: | 220 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Quantitative Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |