Szmrecsanyi / Wälchli Aggregating Dialectology, Typology, and Register Analysis

Linguistic Variation in Text and Speech
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-031755-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 478 Seiten

Reihe: linguae & litterae

This volume aims to overcome sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation - be it language-internal or cross-linguistic. Even though dialectologists, register analysts, typologists, and quantitative linguists all deal with linguistic variation, there is astonishingly little interaction across these fields. But the fourteen contributions in this volume show that these subdisciplines actually share many interests and methodological concerns in common. The chapters specifically converge in the following ways: First, they all seek to explore linguistic variation, within or across languages. Second, they are based on usage data, that is, on corpora of (more or less) authentic text or speech of different languages or language varieties. Third, all chapters are concerned with the joint analysis (also sometimes known as “aggregation” or “data synthesis”) of multiple phenomena, features, or measurements of some sort. And lastly, the contributors all marshal quantitative analysis techniques to analyse the data. In short, the volume explores the text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies, demonstrating that there is much mutual inspiration to be had by thinking outside the disciplinary box.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Departments, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt

Wälchli, Bernhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction: The text-feature-aggregation pipeline in variation studies;7
2;Convergence between dialect varieties and dialect groups in the Dutch language area;32
3;A comparison of statistical methods for the aggregation of regional linguistic variation;59
4;Forests, trees, corpora, and dialect grammars;95
5;Feature-based versus aggregate analyses of the DECTE corpus: Phonological and morphological variability in Tyneside English;119
6;Complex systems in aggregated variation analyses;156
7;A weakly supervised multivariate approach to the study of language variation;180
8;Semantic weighting mechanisms in scalable lexical sociolectometry;211
9;Temperature in the word space: Sense exploration of temperature expressions using word-space modelling;237
10;The perfect map: Investigating the cross-linguistic distribution of TAME categories in a parallel corpus;274
11;Explorations into variation across Slavic: Taking a bottom-up approach;296
12;Where Alice fell into: Motion events from a parallel corpus;330
13;Algorithmic typology and going from known to similar unknown categories within and across languages;361
14;Inducing place distinctions of consonants from their distribution in words;400
15;Laws of language and text in quantitative and synergetic linguistics;432
16;Appendix;457
17;Author index;473

Über Autor(innen)

Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, University of Leuven, Belgium; Bernhard Wälchli, Stockholm University, Sweden.