NOUNDESEMANTICIZATION {MoLE}

Bleach word meaning

Description

Update meaning representations of nouns/verbs on the basis of usage history.

Usage

NOUNDESEMANTICIZATION(agent)

Arguments

agent

Agent whose lexicon is to be updated

Details

Cf. Heine and Kuteva p.39: freq is epiphenomenon of extension, not cause; extension by combinatorial flexibility 8 is minimum freq from which Yang applies.

Value

agent (with updated nominal representations)

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

References

Hopper, P. J. & Traugott, E. C. (2003). Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Heine, B. & Kuteva, T. (2007). The genesis of grammar. a reconstruction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bybee, J. (2010). Language, usage and cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press.

See Also

SEMUPDATE

Examples

#only effective if usage history is non-empty
FOUND()
population[[1]]=NOUNDESEMANTICIZATION(population[[1]])	
population[[1]]=VERBDESEMANTICIZATION(population[[1]])