Varying Abstractions: a conceptual vs. distributional view on prepositional polysemy

Autor: Lauren Fonteyn

Publikováno v: Glossa, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2021)

The term ‘meaning’, as it is presently employed in Linguistics, is a polysemous concept, covering a broad range of operational definitions. Focussing on two of these definitions, meaning as ‘concept’ and meaning as ‘context’ (also known a

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Classifying evolutionary forces in language change using neural networks

Autor: Folgert Karsdorp, Enrique Manjavacas, Lauren Fonteyn, Mike Kestemont

Publikováno v: Evolutionary Human Sciences, Vol 2 (2020)

A fundamental problem in research into language and cultural change is the difficulty of distinguishing processes of stochastic drift (also known as neutral evolution) from processes that are subject to selection pressures. In this article, we descri

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Let’s get into it

Autor: Lauren Fonteyn

Publikováno v: Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 34(1), 66-78

This squib briefly explores how contextualized embeddings – which are a type of compressed token-based semantic vectors – can be used as semantic retrieval and annotation tools for corpus-based research into constructions. Focusing on embeddings

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https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00035.fon

Complexity in Complementation

Autor: Peter Petré, Lauren Fonteyn, Hubert Cuyckens

Publikováno v: Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited ISBN: 9783110733945
Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
Cognitive sociolinguistics revisited / Kristiansen, G. [edit.]; et al. [edit.]

This paper presents the contours of an innovative study probing the impact of interindividual differences in cognitive representations on long-term population-level language change. Focussing on the system of English verb complementation, the study s

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733945-022

Varying abstractions

Autor: Lauren Fonteyn

Publikováno v: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 90
Glossa, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2021)
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 6(1), 1-28

The term ‘meaning’, as it is presently employed in Linguistics, is a polysemous concept, covering a broad range of operational definitions. Focussing on two of these definitions, meaning as ‘concept’ and meaning as ‘context’ (also known a

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https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1323