@inproceedings{feltgen-2022-qualifiers,
    title = "From qualifiers to quantifiers: semantic shift at the paradigm level",
    author = "Feltgen, Quentin",
    editor = "Tahmasebi, Nina  and
      Montariol, Syrielle  and
      Kutuzov, Andrey  and
      Hengchen, Simon  and
      Dubossarsky, Haim  and
      Borin, Lars",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2022.lchange-1.5/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.lchange-1.5",
    pages = "44--53",
    abstract = "Language change has often been conceived as a competition between linguistic variants. However, language units may be complex organizations in themselves, e.g. in the case of schematic constructions, featuring a free slot. Such a slot is filled by words forming a set or {\textquoteleft}paradigm' and engaging in inter-related dynamics within this constructional environment. To tackle this complexity, a simple computational method is offered to automatically characterize their interactions, and visualize them through networks of cooperation and competition. Applying this method to the French paradigm of quantifiers, I show that this method efficiently captures phenomena regarding the evolving organization of constructional paradigms, in particular the constitution of competing clusters of fillers that promote different semantic strategies overall."
}