Deconstructing destruction: A Cognitive Linguistics perspective on a computational analysis of diachronic change

Karlien Franco · Mariana Montes · Kris Heylen

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linguistics and terminology studies Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

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In this paper, we aim to introduce a Cognitive Linguistics perspective into a computational analysis of near-synonyms.We focus on a single set of Dutch near-synonyms, vernielen and vernietigen, roughly translated as 'to destroy', replicating the analysis from Geeraerts (1997) with distributional models.Our analysis, which tracks the meaning of both words in a corpus of 16th-20th century prose data, shows that both lexical items have undergone semantic change, led by differences in their prototypical semantic core.

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1994The Structure of Lexical Variation 1998Diachronic prototype semantics: A contribution to historical lexicology 2010Introducing Cognitive Linguistics 1988Where does prototypicality come from?2015Monitoring polysemy: Word space models as a tool for large-scale lexical semantic analysis

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