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A polarity-sensitive item (PSI), as traditionally defined, is an expression that is restricted to either an affirmative or negative context. PSIs like ‘lift a finger’ and ‘all the time in the world’ sub-serve discourse routines like understatement and emphasis. Lexical–semantic classes are increasingly invoked in descriptions of the properties of PSIs. Here, we use English corpus data and the tools of Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982, 1985) to explore Israel’s (2011) observation that the semantic role of a PSI determines how the expression fits into a contextually constructed scalar model. We focus on a class of exceptions implied by Israel’s model: cases in which a given PSI displays two countervailing patterns of polarity sensitivity, with attendant differences in scalar entailments. We offer a set of case studies of polaritysensitive expressions – including verbs of attraction and aversion like ‘can live without’, monetary units like ‘a red cent’, comparative adjectives and time-span adverbials – that demonstrate that the interpretation of a given PSI in a given polar context is based on multiple factors. These factors include the speaker’s perspective on and affective stance towards the described event, available inferences about causality and, perhaps most critically, particulars of the predication, including the verb or adjective’s frame membership, the presence or absence of an ability modal like can, the grammatical construction used and the range of contingencies evoked by the utterance.
Bericht über die 19. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung vom 16. bis 18. März 2016 in Mannheim
(2016)
Der Beitrag stellt die theoretischen und methodologischen Grundlagen des Lernerwörterbuchprojekts DICONALE anhand einiger Analysebeispiele vor. Es handelt sich um ein zweisprachig-bidirektionales, onomasiologisch-konzeptuell ausgerichtetes Verbwörterbuch, das sowohl zur Konsultation für Produktionszwecke ab B2-Niveau im Bereich DaF und ELE als auch für den Übersetzungsprozess in die jeweilige Fremdsprache dienlich sein soll. Es beruht auf häufigkeitsbasierten Daten vergleichbarer elektronisch verfügbarer Korpora beider Sprachen und soll dem Benutzer online zugänglich gemacht werden. Das Wörterbuch gliedert sich in unterschiedliche konzeptuelle (Sub)Felder, denen sich lexikalisch-semantische (Mini)Paradigmen zuordnen lassen. Es basiert auf einem modular-multilateralen lexikologischen Beschreibungsmodell, welches einzelsprachliche und sprachvergleichend relevante korpusbasierte Informationen zu Form, Bedeutung und Verwendung durch die Information von verschiedenen paradigmatischen und syntagmatischen Relationen verbaler und deverbaler Lexeme präsentiert.
Names in competition: A corpus-based quantitative investigation into the use of colonial place names
(2016)
Referentially equivalent toponyms occur very often in colonial and postcolonial contexts. These names are in competition, and this competition is reflected in language use and in changing frequencies of use in large corpora. The main theoretical and methodological assumption of this paper is that corpus frequencies of referentially equivalent toponyms change according to particular patterns, and that the Google Ngram Corpora and Google Ngram Viewers can be used to detect these patterns. The aims of this paper are twofold: firstly, a corpus-linguistic method for investigations into the use of names will be presented, applied, and critically evaluated; secondly, it will be shown that the correlation between patterns of frequency changes and patterns of socio-historical colonial and postcolonial events gives rise to cross-linguistic generalizations, for example, that an increase in public interest in a place strongly promotes one of the referenlially equivalent names, or that in renaming scenarios colonial toponyms in relation to new toponyms remain in stronger use in the language of the former colonial power than in languages of other colonial powers.
In this paper, we report on an effort to develop a gold standard for the intensity ordering of subjective adjectives. Rather than pursue a complete order as produced by paying attention to the mean scores of human ratings only, we take into account to what extent assessors consistently rate pairs of adjectives relative to each other. We show that different available automatic methods for producing polar intensity scores produce results that correlate well with our gold standard, and discuss some conceptual questions surrounding the notion of polar intensity.