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Lexical Variation and Change: A Distributional Semantic Approach - Hardcover

Geeraerts, Dirk; Speelman, Dirk; Heylen, Kris; Montes, Mariana; De Pascale, Stefano; Franco, Karlien; Lang, Michael

 
9780198890676: Lexical Variation and Change: A Distributional Semantic Approach

Synopsis

This book introduces a systematic framework for understanding and investigating lexical variation, using a distributional semantics approach. It presents a comprehensive model of lexical and semantic variation, and uses case studies of Dutch and Spanish to illustrate both the advantages and disadvantages of a distributional methodology approach.

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Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven,Dirk Speelman, University of Leuven,Kris Heylen, University of Leuven,Mariana Montes, University of Leuven,Stefano De Pascale, University of Leuven,Karlien Franco, University of Leuven,Michael Lang, University of Leuven

Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Kris Heylen, Mariana Montes, Stefano De Pascale, Karlien Franco, and Michael Lang are members of the Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) research team at the University of Leuven. They collaborated on the Nephological Semantics research project, which continued QLVL's long-standing research line on semantic and lexical variation from a cognitive sociolinguistic point of view.

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