Quantifying analogically derived similarity in usage
Dylan Glynn | Université Paris 8, Saint-Denis – Vincennes
This study considers the methodological implications of the usage-based model (Langacker 1987) for a description of prototype-structured categorisation (Lakoff 1987). The usage-based model places repeated analogical judgements at
the heart of language processing as well as positing that the repetition of this process, across speech events, is
responsible for grammatical competence. Semasiological structure represents one of the most challenging types of
conceptual categorisation and is the focus of the case study on the semantics of the lexeme time in
contemporary American English. The study examines the methodological adequacy of the Behavioural Profile Approach
(Dirven et al. 1982; Geeraerts et al. 1994; Gries 2003) in
accounting for that complexity in a cognitively plausible manner. It is shown how the method quantifiably accounts for
the emergent many-to-many structures interpretable as structured polysemy.
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