Computational and corpus linguistics

The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German and Danish).

Interjections in Ancient Greek have long lacked a comprehensive account, despite their frequent occurrence in major texts.

Focusing on methodologies, applications and challenges of textual data analysis and related fields, this book gathers selected and peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 14th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data (JADT 2018), held in Rome, Italy, on June 12-15, 2018.

The present volume collects contributions addressing different aspects of the measurement of linguistic differences, a topic which probably is as old as language itself but at the same time has acquired renewed interest over the last decade or so, reflecting a rapid development of data-intensive computing in all fields of research, including linguistics.

This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users.

This book explores the nature and causes of misunderstandings in ELF interactions.

The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency of linguistic elements/stimuli.

The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning.

The volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives.

This volume presents the results of the international symposium Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century.

The volume addresses the role of salience in discourse and provides broad coverage of various perspectives on and functions of discourse salience.

To join the recent debate on data problem in linguistics, this collection of papers provides complex dual purpose analyses at the interface of semantics and pragmatics (including historical, lexical, formal and experimental pragmatics).

All languages of the world provide their speakers with linguistic means to express causal relations in discourse.

Seit den 1990er Jahren hat sich die Diskurslinguistik in der Germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft als neue Teildisziplin zur Analyse textübergreifender Muster fest etablieren können.

Nominated for the Best contribution to Slavic Linguistics/AATSEEL book award 2011 The concept of complex emotions is obviously polysemous.

This volume explores the interplay of syntactic variation and genre.

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning.

Given that we lack sensory-motor experience for abstract concepts, how do we find out what they mean?

This book demonstrates how the underlying principles of the English-based FrameNet project are successfully applied to the description and analysis of typologically diverse languages.

The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics.

The contributions to The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics.

The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English.

Sprachgebrauchsmuster sind Indikatoren für Diskurse und Denkweisen.

The present book finds and collects absolutely new aspects of word frequency.

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Die historisch-semantische Studie untersucht Otto von Bismarcks Verwendung des Terminus Volk und seiner Synonyme wie Nation oder Stamm und fragt, in welchen Argumentationsmustern Bismarck solche Ausdrücke typischerweise zur Durchsetzung seiner politischen Intentionen einsetzt.

This book contains selected state-of-the-art contributions to the 9th conference on natural language processing, KONVENS 2008 (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung naturlicher Sprache), with the central theme: text resources and lexical knowledge.

This SpringerBrief presents the data- information-and-time (DIT) model that precisely clarifies the semantics behind the terms data, information and their relations to the passage of real time.

The papers in this volume deal with the issue of how corpus data relate to the questions that cognitive linguists have typically investigated with respect to conceptual mappings.

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before.

Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic (including cross-modal) investigation.

This volume presents important results of the Collaborative Research Center (Sonderforschungsbereich) "e;Situated Artificial Communicators,"e; which was funded by grants from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for more than twelve years.

Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language.

The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of linguistic theory in general, and the status of different kinds of linguistic evidence in particular.

This book presents a unified formal approach to various contemporary linguistic formalisms such as Government & Binding, Minimalism or Tree Adjoining Grammar.

The history of modern European languages has been largely determined by the range of functions they have acquired, particularly after 1500.

The recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions.

This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research.

The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission.

This volume contributes to a linguistic program characterized by the view that explanatory goals in syntax and semantics can be met only in models that are sufficiently formalized.