This paper uses methods based on corpus statistics and synonymy to explore the role
language history and sound/form relationships play in conceptual organization through a …

This paper presents a new statistical method for detecting and tracking changes in word
meaning, based on Latent Semantic Analysis. By comparing the density of semantic vector …

The paper explores the correlation between lexical and grammatical semantics showcased
by the inflexion of close meaning nouns of the Russian language. The basic assumption is …

Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals
the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in …

Abstract Knowledge is assumed by cognitive science to consist of concepts that are
organised and maintained by complex processes taking place in human minds. These …

We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new
words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the …

Coming from a background in corpus linguistics I recall being thrilled a few years ago while
reading a paper entitled Corpus-based Methods and Cognitive Semantics: The Many …

This paper investigates how cross-linguistic phoneme distributions of 56 fundamental
oppositional concepts can reveal semantic relationships by looking into the linguistic forms …

The lexicon of any natural language encodes a huge number of distinct word meanings. Just
to understand this article, you will need to know what thousands of words mean. The space …

Romance stem alternations have been argued to represent exclusively morphological
objects (or “morphomes”) independent from semantic and syntactic categories. This …