Yves Peirsman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yves Peirsman plays a role.
Articles
The corpus-based identification of cross-lectal synonyms in pluricentric languages International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 20:1, pp. 54–80 | Article
2015 This article discusses a corpus-based method for the automatic identification of synonyms across different varieties of the same language. This method, based on the paradigm of distributional semantics, quantifies semantic similarity on the basis of contextual similarity in two comparable corpora.… read more
Zones, facets, and prototype-based metonymy Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a consensus view, Benczes, Réka, Antonio Barcelona and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez (eds.), pp. 89–102 | Article
2011 This chapter investigates the relationship between metonymy and two related semantic phenomena: profile/zone discrepancy and facetization. Both of these phenomena aim to explain linguistic examples that activate only a specific zone or facet of the entity referred to. However, their precise… read more
Review of Panther, Thornburg & Barcelona (): Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar Metaphor and metonymy revisited beyond the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: Recent developments and applications, Gonzálvez-García, Francisco, María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Lorena Pérez-Hernández (eds.), pp. 315–320 | Review
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