Linguistic variants, which contribute to the lexical richness of natural languages, are far from marginal in specialized communication, as evidenced by the numerous occurrences in specialist corpora as well as by the synonymous variants stored in terminological databases (for example http://iate.europa.eu). Therefore, in order to allow their semi-automatic quantitative-qualitative analysis in large corpora, a way has to be found to cope with the complexity that characterizes the semantic relations between them. In recent years, the development of new corpus-linguistic tools such as ConcGrams has opened new horizons in the study of inter and intralinguistic variation. These enable context elements to be included more systematically in the quantitative-qualitative analyses of large corpora. Especially when used together with a very specialized corpus, they facilitate the identification of linguistic patterns and heighten the predictability of language uses, as will be shown with reference to some lexical variants drawn from a corpus composed mainly of German texts concerning environmental law.
Korpusgestützte Wortfeldanalysen. Zum Auf- und Ausbau verwaltungsrechtlicher Sprachbestände
HOEHMANN D.
2013
Abstract
Linguistic variants, which contribute to the lexical richness of natural languages, are far from marginal in specialized communication, as evidenced by the numerous occurrences in specialist corpora as well as by the synonymous variants stored in terminological databases (for example http://iate.europa.eu). Therefore, in order to allow their semi-automatic quantitative-qualitative analysis in large corpora, a way has to be found to cope with the complexity that characterizes the semantic relations between them. In recent years, the development of new corpus-linguistic tools such as ConcGrams has opened new horizons in the study of inter and intralinguistic variation. These enable context elements to be included more systematically in the quantitative-qualitative analyses of large corpora. Especially when used together with a very specialized corpus, they facilitate the identification of linguistic patterns and heighten the predictability of language uses, as will be shown with reference to some lexical variants drawn from a corpus composed mainly of German texts concerning environmental law.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
