• Login

C02

C02: Conceptual shifts: statistical evidence

Overview

Publications

Talks & Posters

Events

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.

Head 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

Prof. Dr. Wiebke Petersen
Institut für Sprache und Information
Universitätsstr. 1
40225 Düsseldorf
Phone: +49 211 81-152 95
Email: petersew@uni-duesseldorf.de

Staff

Christian Horn
Phone: +49 211 81-136 88
Email: chorn@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de

Adrian Czardybon
Phone: +49 211 81-117 42
Email: adrian.czardybon@uni-duesseldorf.de

Lei Li
Phone: +49 211 81-117 42
Email: li@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de

Christof Rumpf
Phone: +49 211 81-123 07
Email: rumpf@uni-duesseldorf.de

PD Dr. Oliver Hellwig
Phone: +49 211 81-03177
Email:Oliver.Hellwig@uni-duesseldorf.de

Submitted

Czardybon, Adrian (submitted): The distribution and article status of tyn in Upper Silesian.

Czardybon, Adrian & Christian Horn (submitted): Annotation of related properties in unrelated languages – adaptation and modification of a German noun type annotation procedure to Polish.

Horn, Christian (submitted): Linguistic congruency of nominal concept types in German texts.

To appear/Accepted

Hellwig, Oliver & Wiebke Petersen (to appear): Detecting Relational Constructions in German Texts Automatically. To appear in Proceedings of Konvens 2014.

2014

Brenner, Dorothea; Indefrey, Peter; Horn, Christian & Nicolas Kimm (2014): Evidence for four basic noun types from a corpus-linguistic and a psycholinguistic perspective. In: Gerland, Doris; Horn, Christian; Latrouite, Anja & Albert Ortmann (eds.): Meaning and grammar of nouns and verbs. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. [Link]

Czardybon, Adrian; Hellwig, Oliver; Petersen, Wiebke (2014): Statistical Analysis of the Interaction between Word Order and Definiteness in Polish. In: Adam Przepiórkowski & Maciej Ogrod-niczuk (eds.). Proceedings of PolTAL 2014. Springer.

Czardybon, Adrian & Jens Fleischhauer (2014): Definiteness & perfectivity in telic incremental theme predications. In: Gerland, Doris; Horn, Christian; Latrouite, Anja & Albert Ortmann (eds.): Meaning and grammar of nouns and verbs. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. [Link]

Gerland, Doris; Horn, Christian; Latrouite, Anja & Albert Ortmann (2014): Meaning and grammar of nouns and verbs. Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. [Link]

Horn, Christian & Nicolas Kimm (2014): Concept types in German fictional texts. In: Gamerschlag, T.; Gerland, D.; Osswald, R. & Petersen, W. (eds.): Concept Types and Frames. Applications in Language and Philosophy. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Dordrecht, NL: Springer. [Link]

Petersen, Wiebke & Osswald, Tanja (2014): Concept Composition in Frames – Focusing on Genitive Constructions. In: Gamerschlag, T.; Gerland, D.; Osswald, R. & Petersen, W. (eds.): Concept Types and Frames. Applications in Language and Philosophy. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Dordrecht, NL: Springer. [Link]

2012

Horn, Christian; Löbner, Sebastian & Markus Werning (guest editors) (2012): Semantic contributions to a theory of concepts. Journal of Semantics, 29(4). [Link]

Petersen, W. and Osswald, T. (2012): A Formal Interpretation of Concept Types and Type Shifts. In: Kosecki, K. and Badio, J. (eds.), Cognitive Processes in Language, Łódź Studies in Language, 25, p. 183–191, Peter Lang. Frankfurt.

2011

Kimm, Nicolas & Christian Horn (2011): Nominal Associative Anaphors – A Text-Based Analysis at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface. In: Iris Hendrickx, Sobha Lalitha Devi, António Branco, and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.): Anaphora and Reference Resolution. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 7099. Berlin: Springer. 108–118. [Link]

2014

Czardybon, Adrian & Fleischhauer: Jens (2014): “Aspectual composition with verbal prefixes/particles in Germanic and Slavic languages. Talk given at “Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science”, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Czardybon, Adrian & Fleischhauer: Jens (2014): Verbal prefixes/particles in aspectual composition. Talk given at the SLE, Poznań, Poland.

Horn, Christian (2014): A corpus-linguistic analysis of noun types and determination in German. Talk given at the 6th International Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL). University of Erlangen, Germany.

Horn, Christian (2014): How to get a grip on polysemy with corpus-linguistic methods. Talk given at the conference “Grammar and Corpora”, University of Warsaw, Poland.

Horn, Christian (2014): Why many prefer some lamb over some dog – Results from a corpus-linguistic analysis of the mass-count distinction. Talk given at the “Workshop on Cognition, Grammar, and Corpora at the 41st Finnish Conference of Linguistics”, University of Turku, Finland.

Horn, Christian (2014): A method for investigating the mass-count distinction on a larger scale. Talk given at the conference “Mapping Methods: Approaches to Language Studies”, University of Tartu, Estonia.

2013

Czardybon, Adrian (2013): “Definiteness and Concept Types in Polish”. Talk given at the Workshop on „Languages with and without articles“, Paris, France

Czardybon, Adrian & Fleischhauer: Jens (2013). “Definitheit und Perfektivität bei telischen inkrementellen Prädikationen”. Talk given at the “14. Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium”, Halle (Saale), Germany.

Czardybon, Adrian (2013): „Die Distribution des oberschlesischen definiten Artikels bei semantischer und pragmatischer Eindeutigkeit”. Talk given at the Semantik und Pragmatik im Südwesten (SPSW) 5, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Czardybon, Adrian (2013): “Variation in the explicit marking of definiteness. Standard Polish ten vs. Upper Silesian tyn”. Talk given at The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, Szczecin, Poland.

Horn, Christian; Nicolas Kimm; Brenner, Dorothea & Peter Indefrey (2013): Evidence for four basic noun types from a grammatical, pragmatic and psycholinguistic perspective. Talk given at the 14th Conference of the Texas Linguistic Society (TLS 14), University of Austin, Texas, USA.

2012

Czardybon, Adrian (2012): “The Definite Article in the Upper Silesian Dialect of Polish”. Talk given at the Workshop on „Semantic and Typological Perspectives on Definites“, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Czardybon, Adrian & Fleischhauer, Jens (2012): “Nominal Determination, Aspect, and Telicity in Slavic Languages”. Talk given at the Conference on “Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science”, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Horn, Christian & Nicolas Kimm (2012): Finding your way in difficult terrain: Annotating semantic properties and pragmatic use. Talk given at the research Colloquium of the CRC 732 “Incremental Specification in Context”, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

Horn, Christian (2012): The sun, my father, a miracle? Noun types in texts: identification and grammatical uses. Talk given at the 8th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO 2012). University of Almería, Spain.

Horn, Christian (2012): Annotation guidelines for the corpus linguistic analysis of concept types in German texts (Poster-Presentation). Talk given at the 5th International Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL). University of Freiburg, Germany.

Horn, Christian & Nicolas Kimm (2012): Evidence for Concept Types from a Semantic-Pragmatic Corpus Study. Talk given at the 3rd Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Cognition and Science (CTF12). University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Horn, Christian (2012): Guidelines for the annotation of nominal concept types in German texts. Talk given at the Workshop on Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation of Corpora (Anno 2012). University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Horn, Christian & Nicolas Kimm (2012): Corpus-Linguistic Evidence for Concept Types from a Semantic-Pragmatic Perspective. Talk given at the Workshop on semantic and typological perspectives on definites, University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

25.-27.08.2014 Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science (CTF’14, all projects)
16-17.09.2013 Countability workshop (together with Hana Filip)
22.-24.08.2012 Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science (CTF’12, all projects)
16.07.2012 Workshop Semantic and Pragmatic Annotation of Corpora
01-02.06.2012 Workshop Semantic and Typological Perspectives on Definites (together with C01)