Author:
Geeraerts Dirk,Speelman Dirk,Heylen Kris,Montes Mariana,De Pascale Stefano,Franco Karlien,Lang Michael
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how the joint distributional analysis of semantically related lexical items, like near-synonyms, allows to identify shared senses as common clusters in a distributional analysis. It explores the use of distributional models for analysing the evolution over time of the nearly synonymous Dutch verbs vernielen and vernietigen, ‘to destroy’. Compared to the preceding chapter, the descriptive perspective is different in two ways. First, rather than analysing semasiological structure as such, the focus shifts to an onomasiological point of view. Second, the chapters adds a lectal (more specifically, diachronic or ‘chronolectal’) dimension. The chapter illustrates how semasiological and onomasiological variation and change interact: changes in the onomasiological structure of a language can go hand in hand with semasiological changes.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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