Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns
Some methodological remarks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4917893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevan Berg (0000-0003-4059-3106, University of Bonn, corresponding author), Kristian Berg (Institut für Germanistik, Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Am Hof 1d, 53113, Bonn, Deutschland) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1117-1150 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2020-0148 |
| OpenAlex | W3085100128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 12 |
Changes in the productivity of word-formation patterns are often investigated using hapax legomena. In this paper, I argue that at least in diachronic investigations of productivity, a measure based on first attestations is a viable alternative to hapax-based measures. I show that such a measure is a more direct proxy to new words than hapax-based measures - it measures what we want to measure, which is not always true for the latter. I present a method that deals with the common problem of varying subcorpus sizes (I suggest we randomly resample the subcorpora up to a predefined size), and to the problem of old words appearing as new at the start of the corpus (I suggest we take an earlier corpus and determine a point in time when almost all old words have registered). Armed with these instruments, we can determine the ratio of new types to existing types for a time span, which can be regarded as the renewal rate of the respective category
Art · Economics · Linguistics · Literature · Measure (data warehouse) · Point (geometry) · Productivity · Proxy (statistics) · Statistics · Word (group theory) · Word length · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |