Blast From the Past
The strongest collocations of the word 'baked' in the BNC.
What is baked beans?
This linguistic framework argues that constructions include both syntax and the lexical
items that appear in them.
What is Construction Grammar?
This collocational method developed by Gries & Stefanowitsch can detect attraction
between verbs and constructions.
What is collostructional analysis?
Has changed to a more epistemic and informational collocation-profile.
What is may?
Is the combination of two words, one of which is collocation and the other is similar to building something.
What is collostrucion?
This is the English modal auxiliary whose meaning change Hilpert analyzes over 200
years.
What is may?
Instead of highlighting only the most extreme collocates, the vector-space model offers
this type of perspective.
What is a comprehensive, network-level view?
This is a form of language change similar to change in meaning, in syntactic order, morphological form or phonological form.
What is strength of collocations?
If there is only one occurence in a corpus for a given word combination.
What is Hapax legomena?
The study shows that may has shifted away from this type of modality, associated with
permission and obligation.
What is deontic modality?
The analysis focuses on the top 250 of these types associated with may.
What are the most frequent verb types?
A collocation of may that is both very concrete and also in the mental category.
What is know?
Can be influenced by the difference in written and spoken language, as well as the difference in formal and informal language can.
What is productivity?
Instead, may increasingly expresses this type of modality, related to inference and
probability.
What is epistemic modality?
This contemporary corpus provides synchronic verb-collocation frequencies for creating
the semantic vector space.
What is COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English)?
Collocates stronger with may as the years go on, which might be due to mays move towards being more epistemic/ informational.
What is get?
This is how often two words occur in the same sentence together; showcasing an intersection of both words appearing.
What is the Dice score?
In the COHA data, may moves from the “involved” side of this textual continuum
toward the “informational” side.
What is the involved ↔ informational continuum?
Together, collostructional analysis, similarity mapping, and vector-space modeling give
this multi-layered perspective on language change.
What is a triangulated / multidimensional approach?
Is on the first slide in the top right corner.
What, or where is a chicken?