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Change of Attitude? A Diachronic Study of Stance [PDF]
Written Communication, 2016 Successful research writers construct texts by taking a novel point of view toward the issues they discuss while anticipating readers’ imagined reactions to those views.
Hyland, Ken, Jiang, Feng (Kevin)
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A Bayesian Model of Diachronic Meaning Change [PDF]
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 Word meanings change over time and an automated procedure for extracting this information from text would be useful for historical exploratory studies, information retrieval or question answering. We present a dynamic Bayesian model of diachronic meaning change, which infers temporal word representations as a set of senses and their prevalence. Unlike
Lea Frermann, Mirella Lapata
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Iconicity and Diachronic Language Change [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2021 AbstractIconicity, the resemblance between the form of a word and its meaning, has effects on behavior in both communicative symbol development and language learning experiments. These results have invited speculation about iconicity being a key feature of the origins of language, yet the presence of iconicity in natural languages seems limited.
Monaghan, Padraic, Roberts, Seán G.
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CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS Of 'ECONOMIC CRISIS' IN ENGLISH: A HISTORICAL COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2021 This article explores the role of metaphor in the conceptualization of economic crisis in English in terms of the sociohistorical – cognitive – linguistic interface.
Iryna Shevchenko
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M@ppemonde, 2021 Conventional cartographic tools do not allow a landscape trajectory to be formalized other than through a diachronic study. The objective is to propose a geohistorical approach by analyzing the phases of change and their spatialization through the use of
Thérèse Hugerot +3 more
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Ditransitive verbs and the ditransitive construction: a diachronic perspective [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs
Colleman, Timothy
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2016 In cases of exceptionality, there are usually many words that behave regularly, a smaller number that behave irregularly (the exceptions), and perhaps an even smaller number whose behavior varies.
Kie Zuraw
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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]
, 2007 This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
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Diachronic change: Early versus late acquisition [PDF]
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011 There is a long linguistic tradition in which language change is explained in terms of first language acquisition. In this tradition, children are considered to be the agents of language change, or at least the agents of changes in the underlying grammar.
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Emergent processes as generation of discontinuities [PDF]
, 2012 In this article we analyse the problem of emergence in its diachronic dimension. In other words, we intend to deal with the generation of novelties in natural processes.
Bich, Leonardo, Bocchi, Gianluca
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