Ash compound frenzy
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Koenraad De Smedt
Abstract
The creation and use of Norwegian compounds with aske ‘ash’ in the media in the spring of 2010 was remarkable. The Norwegian Newspaper Corpus has provided suitable data for an empirical study concerning neology and ‘burstiness’ on this topic. The results indicate that the number of new types as well as token frequencies rose markedly and the variety of compounds in use remained elevated for over a month.
Abstract
The creation and use of Norwegian compounds with aske ‘ash’ in the media in the spring of 2010 was remarkable. The Norwegian Newspaper Corpus has provided suitable data for an empirical study concerning neology and ‘burstiness’ on this topic. The results indicate that the number of new types as well as token frequencies rose markedly and the variety of compounds in use remained elevated for over a month.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web 1
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Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus – Methods and tools
- Corpuscle – a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora 31
- OBT+stat 51
- Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation 67
- Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams 79
- Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus 111
- A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian 131
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Part II. Corpus-based case studies
- A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian 157
- Norm clusters in written Norwegian 193
- Lexical neography in modern Norwegian 221
- Ash compound frenzy 241
- Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus 257
- Metonymic extension and vagueness 285
- Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language 307
- Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data 331
- Name index 351
- Subject index 353
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Building a large corpus based on newspapers from the web 1
-
Part I. Exploiting the web as a corpus – Methods and tools
- Corpuscle – a new corpus management platform for annotated corpora 31
- OBT+stat 51
- Exploring corpora through syntactic annotation 67
- Collocations and statistical analysis of n-grams 79
- Automatic topic classification of a large newspaper corpus 111
- A data-driven approach to anglicism identification in Norwegian 131
-
Part II. Corpus-based case studies
- A corpus-based study of the adaptation of English import words in Norwegian 157
- Norm clusters in written Norwegian 193
- Lexical neography in modern Norwegian 221
- Ash compound frenzy 241
- Financial jargon in a general newspaper corpus 257
- Metonymic extension and vagueness 285
- Spatial metaphors in present-day Norwegian newspaper language 307
- Doing historical linguistics using contemporary data 331
- Name index 351
- Subject index 353
