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Diachronic Analysis of Fuzzy Objects

GeoInformatica, 1999
This paper presents a method to monitor the behavior of fuzzy spatial objects through time. The method consists of two steps. Firstly the spatial extents of objects are determined at several sequential epochs. The method explains the case where objects are not crisply defined, so that the identified spatial extents will be fuzzy.
Tao Cheng 0004, Martien Molenaar
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Pinter's Poetry: A Diachronic Analysis

Style, 2016
A playwright, poet, actor, director, political activist, and the winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, Harold Pinter has become a focus of global criticism. Although Pinter was regarded as "one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century" (Pendarvis 189), his drama has been greatly discussed around the world; his poetry, on the other ...
null Lin, null Baker
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A Diachronic Corpus for Literary Style Analysis

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2018
This research presents a resource for diachronic style analysis in particular the analysis of literary authors over time. Temporal style analysis has received comparatively little attention over the past years in spite of the possibility of an author's style frequently changing over time, a property that is not only interesting in its own right ...
Vogel, Carl, Klaussner, Carmen
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The diachronic analysis of resultative constructions

Language, Context and Text. The Social Semiotics Forum, 2023
AbstractThis study aims to illustrate a systemic functional framework for analysing the change of constructions which are inherently form-meaning correspondences. The study first discusses the value of systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) to solving the perceived problems arising from the theoretical model of grammaticalisation.
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A Diachronic Analysis of the Beef Industry

2014
Cattle have long held an important place in Chinese society and agriculture, especially as a source of draught power, which was the primary role of cattle in the central planning era. The transition in primary role from draught to beef cattle and the growth in little over 30 years to among the largest beef and cattle industries in the world has been ...
Brown, Colin G.   +2 more
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Diachronic frame analysis

Constructions and Frames, 2019
Abstract Frame Semantics offers a valuable perspective on mechanisms of semantic change, particularly metonymy. However, corpus-based frame analysis has rarely been applied to diachronic data. The potential of this approach is illustrated with a diachronic description of the Purpose frame in French, based on 1,429 tokens of 17 frame-evoking words ...
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Diachronic speech act analysis

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2000
In this paper we want to develop a model for the diachronic analysis of speech acts by tracing one particular speech act through the history of English, viz. insults. Speech acts are fuzzy concepts which show both diachronic and synchronic variation.
Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen
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