Buchbeitrag

Exemplars and analogy: Semantic extension in constructional networks

How (and when) do speakers generalise from memorised exemplars of a construction to a productive schema? The present paper presents a novel take on this issue by offering a corpus-based approach to semantic extension processes. Focusing on clusters of German ADJ N expressions involving the heavily polysemous adjective tief ‚deep’, it is shown that type frequency (a commonly used measure of productivity) needs to be relativised to distinct semantic classes within the overall usage spectrum of a given construction in order to predict the occurrence of novel types within a particular region of this spectrum. Some methodological and theoretical implications for usage-based linguistic model building are considered.

Language
Englisch

Subject
Semasiologie
Sprachwandel
Korrelationsanalyse
Sprache

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Zeschel, Arne
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter Mouton
(when)
2017-10-04

URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-64929
Last update
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  • Buchbeitrag

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  • Zeschel, Arne
  • Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter Mouton

Time of origin

  • 2017-10-04

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