Networks of meanings: Complementing collostructional analysis by cluster and network analyses
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Volodymyr Dekalo
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Beate Hampe
Abstract
This paper contributes to the development of collostructional analysis by taking up one of the long-standing issues in collostructional analysis, viz. the assessment and interpretation of the collexeme lists created. It uses the DWDS corpus documenting 20th century written German to study two modalverb constructions which contain either vermögen or bekommen as the first verb plus an infinitive. When expressing ‘possibility’/‘capability’, these constructions compete with the ubiquitous and strongly grammaticalized könnenconstruction. To compare their constructional semantics, the paper combines collostructional analyses with a close investigation of the verbal meanings characterizing their Vinf slots. To classify the collexemes occurring in these slots comprehensively, the semantic information provided about each Vinf collexeme by “GermaNet” is utilized in three different ways: A manual, context-sensitive classification of the top collexemes into the 15 generic verb classes provided by GermaNet is followed by cluster analyses over the semantic-relatedness values given out by the SemRel tool of GermaNet for the pairwise comparison of all possible collexeme combinations. This is complemented by a network analysis identifying collexemes that are salient or “central”, i.e. located on the largest number of “shortest paths” connecting any two collexemes. The implications of the results for the functional differential between the two constructions as well as the methodology itself are discussed.
© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Contents
- Introduction
- Metapragmatic appositions in German talk-in-interaction
- How interactional needs shape information structure: An analysis of the discourse functions of topicalization in three L2 varieties of English
- The encoding of motion events in football and cycling live text commentary: A corpus linguistic analysis
- Can Macromania be explained linguistically? Beneath the morphological boundary: A sketch of subconscious manipulation strategies in Emmanuel Macron’s political discourses
- Nonmanual downtoning in German co-speech gesture and in German Sign Language
- Cognitive cultural models at work: The case of German-speaking Switzerland
- Cognitive descriptions in a corpus-based dictionary of German paronyms
- A contrastive view on the cognitive motivation of linguistic patterns: Concord in English and German
- Idiomatic singleton or prototype? A productivity analysis of be-adj-and-v
- Networks of meanings: Complementing collostructional analysis by cluster and network analyses
- A frame-analysis of the interplay of grammar and cognition in emission verbs
- Bridging the gap: Toward a cognitive semantic analysis of the Lithuanian superlexical prefix be-
