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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.
This paper presents ongoing research which is embedded in an empirical-linguistic research program, set out to devise viable research strategies for developing an explanatory theory of grammar as a psychological and social phenomenon. As this phenomenon cannot be studied directly, the program attempts to approach it indirectly through its correlates in language corpora, which is justified by referring to the core tenets of Emergent Grammar. The guiding principle for identifying such corpus correlates of grammatical regularities is to imitate the psychological processes underlying the emergent nature of these regularities. While previous work in this program focused on syntagmatic structures, the current paper goes one step further by investigating schematic structures that involve paradigmatic variation. It introduces and explores a general strategy by which corpus correlates of such structures may be uncovered, and it further outlines how these correlates may be used to study the nature of the psychologically real schematic structures.
In vielen Theorien zur Sprachproduktion spielt die Einheit Wort eine zentrale Rolle: Bei der Planung einer Äußerung werden vorsprachliche Konzepte angenommen, die jedes für sich einer lexikalischen Komponente für eine geeignete Wortwahl übergeben werden. Eine syntaktische Komponente sorgt für eine angemessene Formulierung. Kollokationen als Wortverbindungen bringen den zusätzlichen Einfluss mit ein, dass Wörter vielfach gemeinsam in präferierten Kombinationen gewählt werden. Dieser fällt aber nur dann auf, wenn das Ergebnis nicht das sonst Erwartbare ist – das allerdings von verschiedenen Faktoren (z. B. der situativen Angemessenheit) abhängig ist. Ein Kollokationsbegriff, der auf Abweichungen aufbaut, trägt nur im Vergleich zu einem nicht pauschal definierbaren Standard. Wenn sich Kollokationen aber im Kern auf Gebrauchspräferenzen zurückführen lassen, sind sie empirisch zugänglich. Kollokationen zeigen sich ermergent im Sprachgebrauch und lassen sich in Korpora aufspüren. Eine Einordnung bezüglich Auffälligkeiten (etwa zur Übersetzungsäquivalenz oder zur Idiomatik) ist jeweils eine perspektiven-bezogene Interpretation des allgemeinen Konzepts.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF GERMAN USAGE A CORPUS-BASED APPROACH
This paper outlines some basic assumptions and principles underlying the corpus linguistics research and some application domains at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim. We briefly address three complementary but closely related tasks: first, the acquisition of very large corpora, second, the research on statistical methods for automatically extracting information about associations between word configurations, and, third, meeting the challenge of understanding the explanatory power of such methods both in theoretical linguistics and in other fields such as second language acquisition or lexicography. We argue that a systematic statistical analysis of huge bodies of text can reveal substantial insights into the language usage und change, far beyond just collocational patterning.
Eine angemessene, sachgemäße Diskussion über Stärken und Schwächen, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Korpuslinguistik ist überschattet von vielen Mythen, die sich mittlerweile eingebürgert haben und die in vielen Diskussionen – gerade unter Linguisten – immer wieder aufkommen. An dieser Stelle möchten wir einige der verbreitetsten Mythen zusammenstellen und die Hintergründe aus dieser korpuslinguistischen Perspektive erörtern.
Maximizing the potential of very large corpora: 50 years of big language data at IDS Mannheim
(2014)
Very large corpora have been built and used at the IDS since its foundation in 1964. They have been made available on the Internet since the beginning of the 90’s to currently over 30,000 researchers worldwide. The Institute provides the largest archive of written German (Deutsches Referenzkorpus, DeReKe) which has recently been extended to 24 billion words. DeReKe has been managed and analysed by engines known as COSMAS and afterwards COSMAS II, which is currently being replaced by a new, scalable analysis platform called KorAP. KorAP makes it possible to manage and analyse texts that are accompanied by multiple, potentially conflicting, grammatical and structural annotation layers, and is able to handle resources that are distributed across different, and possibly geographically distant, storage systems. The majority of texts in DeReKe are not licensed for free redistribution, hence, the COSMAS and KorAP systems offer technical solutions to facilitate research on very large corpora that are not available (and not suitable) for download. For the new KorAP system, it is also planned to provide sandboxed environments to support non-remote-API access “near the data” through which users can run their own analysis programs.