Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
Part I Theoretical preliminaries
1 Lexical variation and the lexeme-lection-lect triangle
1.1 Choices of lexicological perspective
1.2 Semasiology, conceptual onomasiology, formal onomasiology
1.3 Onomasiological profiles and lectometry
1.4 The lexicon in language variation research
1.5 From cognitive linguistics to cognitive sociolinguistics
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2 Distributional semantics and the fog of meaning
2.1 From contexts to clusters
2.2 The diversity of distributional semantics
2.3 Sense determination and semantic indeterminacy
2.4 Semantics without meaning
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Part II Distributional methodology
3 Parameters and procedures for token-based distributional semantics
3.1 From text to vector space
3.2 Linguistically informed parameters
3.3 Statistical parameters
3.4 From vector space to token clouds
3.5 Overview of implemented settings
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4 Visual analytics for token-based distributional semantics
4.1 Dimensionality reduction for visualization
4.2 Selecting representative models
4.3 The NephoVis visualization tool
4.4 A ShinyApp extension for NephoVis
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Part III Semasiological and onomasiological explorations
5 Making sense of distributional semantics
5.1 No single optimal solution
5.2 Types of information
5.3 Semantic heterogeneity
5.4 One cloud, one sense
5.5 Prototypical contexts
5.6 Semantic profiling
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6 The interplay of semasiology and onomasiology
6.1 Onomasiology and token clouds
6.2 Verbs of destruction in Dutch
6.3 Destruction in contemporary Dutch
6.4 Destruction across the centuries
6.5 The evolution of onomasiological sets
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Part IV Lectometric methodology
7 Quantifying lectal structure and change
7.1 Measuring lectal distances
7.2 Standardization and informalization
7.3 Lexical diversity and lexical success
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8 Lectometry step by step
8.1 Selection of near-synonyms
8.2 Demarcation of the model space
8.3 Fine-tuning profiles
8.4 Selection of pruned models
8.5 Lectometric measures
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Part V Lectometric explorations
9 Dimensions of standardization
9.1 Corpora and concepts
9.2 Modelling of token spaces and selection of profiles
9.3 Hierarchical standardization and destandardization
9.4 Formalization and informalization
9.5 Homogenization and dehomogenization
9.6 The evolution of Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch
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10 Pluricentricity from a quantitative point of view
10.1 Spanish as an international language
10.2 Corpus and concept selection
10.3 Distributional modelling
10.4 The impact of model retention
10.5 The impact of lexical fields
10.6 Pluricentricity and the plurality of models
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Conclusions
Software resources
References
Index