Lexical Variation and Change A Distributional Semantic Approach

Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven,Dirk Speelman, University of Leuven,Kris Heylen, University of Leuven,Mariana Montes, University of Leuven,Stefano De Pascale, University of Leuven,Karlien Franco, University of Leuven,Michael Lang, University of Leuven

Dirk Geeraerts, Dirk Speelman, Kris Heylen, Mariana Montes, Stefano De Pascale, Karlien Franco, and Michael Lang are members of the Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL) research team at the University of Leuven. They collaborated on the Nephological Semantics research project, which continued QLVL's long-standing research line on semantic and lexical variation from a cognitive sociolinguistic point of view.

Introduction
Part I. Theoretical preliminaries
1. Lexical variation and the lexeme-lection-lect triangle
2. Distributional semantics and the fog of meaning
Part II. Distributional Methodology
3. Parameters and procedures for token-based distributional semantics
4. Visual analytics for token-based distributional semantics
Part III. Semasiological and onomasiological explorations
5. Making sense of distributional semantics
6. The interplay of semasiology and onomasiology
Part IV. Lectometric methodology
7. Quantifying lectal structure and change
8. Lectometry step by step
Part V. Lectometric explorations
9. Dimensions of standardization
10. Pluricentricity from a quantitative point of view
Conclusions
Software resources
References
Index