How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
[Not in series, 195] 2015. xi, 443 pp.
Natalia Levshina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Natalia Levshina plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2017 Measuring iconicity: A quantitative study of lexical and analytic causatives in British English Functions of Language 24:3, pp. 319–347 | Article
The idea of isomorphism of form and meaning has played an important role in functionalist theories of syntax and morphology. However, there have been few studies that test this hypothesis empirically on quantitative data. This study aims to fill this gap by testing the predictions made by… read more
2016 A geometric exemplar-based model of semantic structure: The Dutch causative construction with laten Corpus-based Approaches to Construction Grammar, Yoon, Jiyoung and Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), pp. 241–262 | Article
This paper addresses an under-investigated issue of the structure of constructional
meaning, presenting an innovative corpus-based bottom-up approach,
which represents the semantic similarities between exemplars of a construction
with the help of Multidimensional Scaling. The study explores the… read more
2016 Verbs of letting in Germanic and Romance languages: A quantitative investigation based on a parallel corpus of film subtitles Languages in Contrast 16:1, pp. 84–117 | Article
This study compares eleven verbs of letting in six Germanic and five Romance languages. The aim of this paper is to pinpoint the differences and similarities in the semasiological variation of these verbs, both across and within the two language groups they represent. The results of a… read more
2015 How Europeans GIVE: A two-layered semantic typology based on two parallel corpora Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, Nolan, Brian, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.), pp. 147–175 | Article
This study investigates how ten European languages from the Germanic, Romance and Slavic groups divide the semantic space of giving. The study is based on exemplars of events of giving extracted from two very different parallel corpora: Bible translations and film subtitles. This probabilistic… read more
2014 Dutch causative constructions: Quantification of meaning and meaning of quantification Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 205–221 | Article
This chapter is a multivariate corpus-based study of two near-synonymous periphrastic causatives with doen and laten in Dutch. Using multiple logistic regression and classification trees, the study explores the conceptual differences between the constructions. The results support the existing… read more
2012 Comparing constructicons: A usage-based analysis of the causative construction with doen in Netherlandic and Belgian Dutch Constructions and Frames 4:1, pp. 76–101 | Article
In the constructionist view, the grammar of a language is represented by constructions organized in taxonomic networks. This paper addresses the question of how one should account for the differences and similarities in the organization of such networks in different varieties of a language. In… read more
2011 Changing the world vs. changing the mind: Distinctive collexeme analysis of the causative construction with doen in Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch Language Variation - European Perspectives III: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5), Copenhagen, June 2009, Gregersen, Frans, Jeffrey K. Parrott and Pia Quist (eds.), pp. 111–122 | Article
2009 Review of Baker (2009): Contemporary Corpus Linguistics English Text Construction 2:2, pp. 289–290 | Review