Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lchange-1.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Nina Tahmasebi, Syrielle Montariol, Andrey Kutuzov, Simon Hengchen, Haim Dubossarsky, Lars Borin
- Venue:
- LChange
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 23–32
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lchange-1.3
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.lchange-1.3
- Cite (ACL):
- Karlien Franco, Mariana Montes, and Kris Heylen. 2022. Deconstructing destruction: A Cognitive Linguistics perspective on a computational analysis of diachronic change. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, pages 23–32, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Deconstructing destruction: A Cognitive Linguistics perspective on a computational analysis of diachronic change (Franco et al., LChange 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.lchange-1.3.pdf