Dirk Geeraerts
Biographic Data
| ID | 546916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Geeraerts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Geeraerts |
| SIGNATURE | GEERAERTS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6350-0588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A diachronic analysis of the Fire character
Chinese radicals are the semantic components of Chinese characters that generally indicate major concepts and categories. Characters that share the same radical may be semantically linked in various ways to the broad semantic category that the radical represents, and radicals may thus be considered a categorization mechanism to distinguish lexical meanings. Given the fact that FIRE is an independent character that can also be used as a radical in…
Internationaler, collectiever, genderdiverser
More international, collective, gender diverse This contribution sheds light on three tendencies in the history of the journal Dutch Linguistics: the increase of Belgian authors, of female authors and of co-authors
A semantic analysis of the fire radical in chinese
Fire has played an essential role in human civilization. FIRE as such is not only a basic but also a crucial concept in human language, including Chinese. In Chinese, FIRE huǒ火 acts as an independent character that is often used as a radical in many composite characters. Considering the fact that Chinese radicals are typically regarded as the semantic components within the composite characters to indicate broader concepts and categories of the ch…
The relational responding task (RRT): A novel approach to measuring social meaning of language variation
Recently, sociolinguistic attitude research has adopted a number of new implicit attitude measures developed in social psychology. Especially the Implicit Association Test (IAT) has proven a successful new addition to the sociolinguist’s toolbox. Despite its relative success, the IAT has a number of limitations, such as the fact that it measures the association between two concepts (e.g. ‘I’ and ‘skinny’) without controlling for the relationship …
Concept characteristics and variation in lexical diversity in two Dutch dialect areas
Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies between concepts. For the concept drunk , for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions exist, including blitzed, intoxicated , and hammered . For the concept sober , however, a significantly smaller number of lexical items is available, like sober or abstinent . While earlier variation studies have revealed that meaning-related concept characteristics correl…
Quantitative historical linguistics: A corpus framework by Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray
Reviewed by: Quantitative historical linguistics: A corpus framework by Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray Dirk Geeraerts Quantitative historical linguistics: A corpus framework. By Gard B. Jenset and Barbara McGillivray. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xiii, 229. ISBN 9780198718178. $88 (Hb). The early twenty-first century has witnessed a major shift toward quantitative approaches in the methodology of linguistics. Specifically, w…
Measuring language attitudes in context: Exploring the potential of the Personalized Implicit Association Test
After decades of relative methodological stagnation, language attitude research is witnessing an influx of new experimental methods originally developed in social psychology. One such measure is the Personalized Implicit Association Test (P-IAT), a reaction-time-based method that measures the association between two concepts. The P-IAT has been used successfully to measure language attitudes, yet presents a number of challenges, like the fact tha…
The Image of the Monolingual Dictionary Across Europe. Results of the European Survey of Dictionary use and Culture
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platfo…
Perspective și probleme ale teoriei prototipului
În paralel cu cercetările întreprinse asupra aplicării teoriei prototipului la chestiuni privind schimbarea semantică (concretizate, în cele din urmă, în apariția monografiei mele din 1997, Diachronic Prototype Semantics [Semantica diacronică a prototipului]), mi-am îndreptat în cîteva rînduri atenția asupra clarificării teoretice a noțiunii de prototipicitate ca atare (și a noțiunii înrudite de polisemie). În acest articol încerc să introduc o o…
Cultural models of linguistic standardization
In line with well-known trends in cultural theory (see Burke et al., 2000), Cognitive Linguistics has stressed the idea that we think about social reality in terms of models – ‘cultural models’ or ‘folk theories’: from Holland & Quinn (1987) over Lakoff (1996) and Palmer (1996) to Dirven et al. (2001a, 2001b), Cognitive linguists have demonstrated how the technical apparatus of Cognitive Linguistics can be used to analyze how our conception of so…
Modele culturale de standardizare lingvistică
În acord cu tendințele din teoria culturală (vezi Burke et al., 2000), lingvistica cognitivă evidențiază faptul că noi înțelegem realitatea socială prin prisma unor modele, „modele culturale” sau „teorii naive (populare)”, și, de la Holland & Quinn (1987) la Lakoff (1996) și Palmer (1998) pînă la Dirven et al. (2001a, 2001b), specialiștii în lingvistică cognitivă au demonstrat că instrumentarul tehnic al lingvisticii cognitive poate fi utilizat p…
Prospects and problems of prototype theory
Parallel to the research that I did on the application of prototype theory to questions of semantic change (which eventually resulted in my Diachronic Prototype Semantics monograph of 1997), I paid attention on a number of occasions to the theoretical clarification of the notion of prototypicality as such (and of the related notion of polysemy: see the second section of this collection). In the paper reprinted here, I try to bring some systematic…
The sociosemiotic commitment
Cognitive Linguistics should complement the Cognitive Commitment with a Sociosemiotic Commitment: a commitment to make one’s account of human language accord with the status of language as a social semiotic, i. e., as an intersubjective, historically and socially variable tool, and to base that account on a methodology that likewise transcends the individual. By looking at defining features of Cognitive Linguistics (its cognitive orientation, and…
Pour une vision périphérique de la sémantique linguistique présente et à venir
Distribution électronique
Lexical Semantics
Lectal constraining of lexical collocations: How a word’s company is influenced by the usage settings
Adopting a corpus-based approach, lexical collocations are reconsidered from a lectal perspective. Analyzing adjective-noun collocations, it will be shown that lexical collocations are conditioned by the language settings in which they are used. These lectal constraints do not only apply to lexical collocations as a measure of lexical association but also to their potential function as a determinant of other constructions. These results argue for…
A sociolinguistic analysis of borrowing in weak contact situations: English loanwords and phrases in expressive utterances in a Dutch reality TV show
This paper presents a quantitative corpus-based variationist analysis of the English insertions used by Belgian Dutch and Netherlandic Dutch participants to the reality TV show ‘Expeditie Robinson’. The data consist of manual transcriptions of 35 hours of recordings for 46 speakers from 3 seasons of the show. Focusing on the expressive utterances in the corpus, we present a mixed-effect logistic regression analysis to pattern which of a variety o…
Usage-related variation in the referential range of blue in marketing context
The paper explores language-internal variation in the referential meaning of the lexical form blue . Taking a usage-based cognitive approach, we analyze the referential range of blue in several marketing contexts from a semasiological and an onomasiological perspective. The study develops an interdisciplinary method that combines frequency analysis with mapping of the referent distributions in the three-dimensional CIELab color space. It is argue…
The corpus-based identification of cross-lectal synonyms in pluricentric languages
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. In two case studies for Dutch and German, we show that it automatically identifies the correct synonym for 31% and 25% of the target words, respectivel…
Visualizing onomasiological change: Diachronic variation in metonymic patterns for woman in Chinese
This paper introduces an innovative method to aid the study of conceptual onomasiological research, with a specific emphasis on diachronic variation in the metonymic patterns with which a target concept is expressed. We illustrate how the method is applied to explore and visualize such diachronic changes by means of a case study on the metonymic patterns for woman in the history of Chinese. Visualization is done with the help of a Multidimensiona…
Lexicography and Theories of Lexical Semantics
Core vocabulary, borrowability and entrenchment: A usage-based onomasiological approach
It is often claimed in contact linguistics that core vocabulary is highly resistant to borrowing. If we want to test that claim in a quantitative way, we need both a quantitative measure of coreness and a method for quantifying borrowability. We suggest here a usage-based operationalization of coreness in terms of entrenchment, and of borrowability in terms of onomasiological success. Applying these measures in a corpus-based study on the use of …
Spurious effects in variational corpus linguistics: Identification and implications of confounding
As repositories of spontaneously realized language, corpora generally have an uncontrolled and unbalanced structure where all variables operate simultaneously. Consequently, a variable’s real effect can be concealed when studied in isolation because of the exclusion of the impact of other potentially confounding variables. Analyzing a variational case study, the alternation between inflected and uninflected attributive adjectives in Dutch, it wil…
Contexts and usage in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Mapping constructional spaces: A contrastive analysis of English and Dutch analytic causatives
The paper demonstrates how verb and noun classes can be used as a common interface in contrastive Construction Grammar. It presents an innovative approach to the contrastive analysis of constructional spaces (sets of constructions covering a certain semantic domain). We compare English and Dutch analytic causatives by using the statistical technique of multiple correspondence analysis applied to data from large monolingual corpora. The method all…
Metonymy as a prototypical category
A definition of metonymy that has gained some popularity in Cognitive Linguistics contrasts metonymical semantic shifts within a domain or domain matrix with metaphorical shifts that cross domain boundaries. In the past few years, however, this definition of metonymy has become subject to more and more criticism, in the sense that it relies too much on the vague notions of domains or domain matrices to be fully reliable. In this article, we addre…
Introducing Cognitive Linguistics
Cognitive Sociolinguistics meets loanword research: Measuring variation in the success of anglicisms in Dutch
This paper introduces a new, concept-based method for measuring variation in the use and success of loanwords by presenting the results of a case-study on 149 English person reference nouns (i.e. common nouns used to designate people, such as manager ) in Dutch. With this paper, we introduce four methodological improvements to current quantitative corpus-based anglicism research, based on the general tenets of Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Geeraert…
Style shifting in commercials
A statistical method for the identification and aggregation of regional linguistic variation
This paper introduces a method for the analysis of regional linguistic variation. The method identifies individual and common patterns of spatial clustering in a set of linguistic variables measured over a set of locations based on a combination of three statistical techniques: spatial autocorrelation, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. To demonstrate how to apply this method, it is used to analyze regional variation in the values of 40 conti…
The sociosemiotic commitment
Cognitive Linguistics should complement the Cognitive Commitment with a Sociosemiotic Commitment: a commitment to make one’s account of human language accord with the status of language as a social semiotic, i. e., as an intersubjective, historically and socially variable tool, and to base that account on a methodology that likewise transcends the individual. By looking at defining features of Cognitive Linguistics (its cognitive orientation, and…
Prospects and problems of prototype theory
Parallel to the research that I did on the application of prototype theory to questions of semantic change (which eventually resulted in my Diachronic Prototype Semantics monograph of 1997), I paid attention on a number of occasions to the theoretical clarification of the notion of prototypicality as such (and of the related notion of polysemy: see the second section of this collection). In the paper reprinted here, I try to bring some systematic…
Language attitudes revisited: Auditory affective priming
Measuring language attitudes in context: Exploring the potential of the Personalized Implicit Association Test
After decades of relative methodological stagnation, language attitude research is witnessing an influx of new experimental methods originally developed in social psychology. One such measure is the Personalized Implicit Association Test (P-IAT), a reaction-time-based method that measures the association between two concepts. The P-IAT has been used successfully to measure language attitudes, yet presents a number of challenges, like the fact tha…
The Image of the Monolingual Dictionary Across Europe. Results of the European Survey of Dictionary use and Culture
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platfo…
Contexts and usage in Cognitive Sociolinguistics
Macro and micro perspectives on the distribution of English in Dutch: A quantitative usage-based analysis of job ads
The world-wide spread of English is one of the most visible symptoms of globalization. In weak contact settings such as Western Europe, where contact with English is usually indirect, remote and asymmetrical, the English language started diffusing at a hitherto unknown rate in the second half of the twentieth century. Crucially, this diffusion happens at two different levels. First, on the macrolevel, English is more and more used as a language o…
Towards a 3D-grammar: Interaction of linguistic and extralinguistic factors in the use of Dutch causative constructions
Introduction: Prospects and problems of prototype theory
Concept characteristics and variation in lexical diversity in two Dutch dialect areas
Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies between concepts. For the concept drunk , for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions exist, including blitzed, intoxicated , and hammered . For the concept sober , however, a significantly smaller number of lexical items is available, like sober or abstinent . While earlier variation studies have revealed that meaning-related concept characteristics correl…
Mapping constructional spaces: A contrastive analysis of English and Dutch analytic causatives
The paper demonstrates how verb and noun classes can be used as a common interface in contrastive Construction Grammar. It presents an innovative approach to the contrastive analysis of constructional spaces (sets of constructions covering a certain semantic domain). We compare English and Dutch analytic causatives by using the statistical technique of multiple correspondence analysis applied to data from large monolingual corpora. The method all…
Does framing work? An empirical study of Simplifying Models for sustainable food production
We investigate empirically whether framing in general, and the use of Simplifying Models as a framing tool in particular, has an effect on the way topics are cognitively construed. Existing studies on framing in linguistics have either been theoretical or descriptive. Going beyond such methodologically simple approaches, we use a more rigid test design involving the use of a control group, the construction of test conditions in which different Si…
Prosodic and syntactic-pragmatic mechanisms of grammatical variation: The impact of a postverbal constituent on the word order in Dutch clause final verb clusters
This paper reports on a quantitative corpus-based study of the impact of a postverbal constituent (PVC) on the choice of word order in Dutch written clause final verb clusters consisting of a participle and an auxiliary verb. The study verifies the results of previous research by analyzing the effect of the presence vs. the absence of a PVC, while at the same time extending previous research by scrutinizing this effect more in depth. More specifi…
Des deux côtés de la sémantique structurale: Sémantique historique et sémantique cognitive
From a methodological point of view, Cognitive Semantics can be considered a return to the position of the prestnicturalist tradition of diachronic semantics. If this is correct, the epistemological objectivity of semantic analysis becomes one of the major issues for contemporary lexical semantics, which then appears to be characterized by a double tension. First, there is a tension between the objectivist desire for formalisation that is the dri…
Meanings and prototypes. Studies in linguistic categorization
Lexikographie als Praxis and teorie
Semantic theory. Towards a modern semantics
Dictionary Classification and the Foundations of Lexicography
Preview this article: Dictionary Classification and the Foundations of Lexicography, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/itl.63.03gee-1.gif
On Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
It is often said that prototypically structured concepts are a counterexample with regard to the classical view of categorization, viz. that categories always have a single definition in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions. However, such statements about the nature of prototypicality do not take into account the distinction between vagueness and ambiguity. In particular, they are never accompanied by a specification of the criteria accor…
Resources for discourse - Anna Wierzbicka, Lexicography and conceptual analysis. Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1985. Pp. 368
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: Prospects and problems of prototype theory
Grammaire cognitive et sémantique lexicale
Geeraerts Dirk, Vandeloise Claude. Grammaire cognitive et sémantique lexicale. In: Communications, 53, 1991. Sémantique cognitive, sous la direction de Claude Vandeloise. pp. 17-50
Des deux côtés de la sémantique structurale: Sémantique historique et sémantique cognitive
From a methodological point of view, Cognitive Semantics can be considered a return to the position of the prestnicturalist tradition of diachronic semantics. If this is correct, the epistemological objectivity of semantic analysis becomes one of the major issues for contemporary lexical semantics, which then appears to be characterized by a double tension. First, there is a tension between the objectivist desire for formalisation that is the dri…
Meanings and prototypes. Studies in linguistic categorization
Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution Historical Lexicology
Prototype theory makes a crucial distinction between the central and peripheral sense of words. Geeraerts explores the implications of this model for a theory of semantic change, in the first full-scale treatment of the impact of the most recent developments in lexicological theory on the study of meaning change. He identifies structural features of the development of word meanings which follow from a prototype-theoretical model of semantic struc…
The Structure of Lexical Variation: Meaning, Naming and Context
Albert Carnoy's La science du mot
Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings
Over the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has grown to be one of the most broadly appealing and dynamic frameworks for the study of natural language. Essentially, this new school of linguistics focuses on the meaning side of language: linguistic form is analysed as an expression of meaning. And meaning itself is not something that exists in isolation, but it is integrated with the full spectrum of human experience: the fact that we are embodied…
Metonymy as a prototypical category
A definition of metonymy that has gained some popularity in Cognitive Linguistics contrasts metonymical semantic shifts within a domain or domain matrix with metaphorical shifts that cross domain boundaries. In the past few years, however, this definition of metonymy has become subject to more and more criticism, in the sense that it relies too much on the vague notions of domains or domain matrices to be fully reliable. In this article, we addre…
Don't let metonymy be misunderstood: An answer to Croft
Misunderstandings are common, even among semanticists. Indeed, after having read William Croft's answer to our article, we believe that most of his criticisms arise from a misunderstanding of our intentions, and more broadly, of the type of model that we have developed. In this answer to Croft, we will first argue that our prototype model, as any prototype model in general, does not claim to put forward any necessary or sufficient attributes for …
The Oxford handbook of cognitive linguistics
Hearts and (angry) minds in Old English
© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin. All Rights Reserved. On the basis of heart expressions in Old English, we argue that an onomasiological analysis is indispensable to get a good insight into the (relative) importance of embodied imagery of the mind and the soul. As a first step, an analysis of heart and mood compounds in Old English reveals three things. First, mood represents an integrated conception of mental life, in w…
Prosodic and syntactic-pragmatic mechanisms of grammatical variation: The impact of a postverbal constituent on the word order in Dutch clause final verb clusters
This paper reports on a quantitative corpus-based study of the impact of a postverbal constituent (PVC) on the choice of word order in Dutch written clause final verb clusters consisting of a participle and an auxiliary verb. The study verifies the results of previous research by analyzing the effect of the presence vs. the absence of a PVC, while at the same time extending previous research by scrutinizing this effect more in depth. More specifi…
Style shifting in commercials
Theories of Lexical Semantics: A Cognitive Perspective
status: Published
Lexical patterning in a construction grammar: The effect of lexical co-occurrence patterns on the inflectional variation in Dutch attributive adjectives
This paper compares two measures that quantify lexical preference patterns in the area of Construction Grammar, namely, collostructions and (construction-internal) collocations (as conceived by Stefan Th. Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch). Starting from a case study, inflectional variation in Dutch attributive adjectives, two diagnostic calculations will be set up to analyse to what extent both association measures identify lexical preferences in t…
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of cognitive linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. It starts with a set of articles discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in cognitive linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set of artic…
Introducing Cognitive Linguistics
Perspectives on Variation: Sociolinguistic, Historical, Comparative
Variation in the (non)metonymic capital names in Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese
This paper examines the (non)metonymic usage of capital names in news articles from Mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese and shows that this phenomenon is actually more complex than might have been expected. We annotated capital names extracted from a self-built news corpus with insights from previous studies on place name metonymies in Cognitive Linguistics and identified factors that would influence their (non)metonymic usage. To quantitatively …
Linguistics (40 works) · Computer Science (35 works) · Philosophy (32 works) · Psychology (29 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (19 works) · Artificial Intelligence (17 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 works) · Mathematics (17 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (16 works) · Natural language processing (14 works)