Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

132 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts (NRC Handelsblad). Given that many of the words in the post-9/11 (evolv- ing) ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 133 A totally different picture emerges for the lexical field of religion. Here s ...

134 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts Conclusions The main goal of this article was to illustrate the use of word ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 135 opens up a dazzling range of possibilities in the study of language variation ...

136 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts Gries, Stefan Th. 2006 Corpus-based methods and cognitive semantics: the many ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 137 Peirsman, Yves, Kris Heylen, and Dirk Speelman 2007 Finding semantically rela ...

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The English genitive alternation in a cognitive sociolinguistics perspective Benedikt Szmrecsanyi Abstract As a corpus-based inq ...

142 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (2) While anthropology’s history is indeed implicated in the scientific con- struction as race as a bio ...

The English genitive alternation 143 rized by comparatively high informational/lexical density (Hinrichs and Szmrecsanyi 2007). ...

144 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi external factors as a cognitive and cultural phenomenon that comes within the remit of cognitive sociol ...

The English genitive alternation 145 The A and B sections in the Brown family of corpora (Brown, LOB, Frown, and F-LOB). These ...

146 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi to the possessum). Similarly, only those of-genitive tokens were retained which could have been express ...

The English genitive alternation 147 Table 1 elucidates how this variation in text frequency is sensitive to lan- guage-external ...

148 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi text-type continuum emerges: the s-genitive is most frequent in spoken data and least frequent in press ...

The English genitive alternation 149 (5) Would that the odious discriminatory policy of the Pentagon were li- mited to those two ...

150 Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 4.4. End weight: possessor and possessum length The time-honored principle of ‘end-weight’ (for instanc ...

The English genitive alternation 151 contexts (the continent’s river systems and the country’s Medical Associa- tion) both exhib ...