C02: Conceptual shifts: statistical evidence
Funding period: 01.07.2011 - 30.06.2015
On the basis of a manual annotation of nominal concept types and an automatic annotation of types of determination in a larger corpus, the project investigates shifts that mediate between nominal concept types from a statistical and a semantic perspective. Differences in frequency of the occurrences of nouns of a given lexical type with determinations of the four possible basic types (absolute, possessive, indefinite, definite) are exploited for a statistical distinction of the conceptual types of nouns. Concomitant with the corpus annotation, conceptual type shifts are identified and analyzed that intervene between lexical meaning and determination. Object languages are German, Polish, and Mandarin.
Heads of the project
Sebastian Löbner
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Kruppstraße 108 / Geb. 46.21
40227 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 81-133 99
Email: loebner@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Wiebke Petersen
Institut für Sprache und Information
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 81-152 95
Email: petersewuni-duesseldorfde
Staff
Christian Horn
Phone: +49 211 81-136 88
Email: chornphil.uni-duesseldorfde
Adrian Czardybon
Phone: +49 211 81-117 42
Email: adrian.czardybonuni-duesseldorfde
Lei Li
Phone: +49 211 81-117 42
Email: liphil.uni-duesseldorfde
Christof Rumpf
Phone: +49 211 81-123 07
Email: rumpfuni-duesseldorfde
PD Dr. Oliver Hellwig
Phone: +49 211 81-03177
Email: Oliver.Hellwiguni-duesseldorfde