Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy

Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use #43

by Dylan Glynn (Brand), Justyna A. Robinson (Editor)

This volume seeks to advance and popularise the use of corpus-driven quantitative methods in the study of semantics. The first part presents state-of-the-art research in polysemy and synonymy from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. The second part presents and explains in a didactic manner each of the statistical techniques used in the first part of the volume. A handbook both for linguists working with statistics in corpus research and for linguists in the fields of polysemy and synonymy.

545 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2014