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What predicts productivity? Theory meets individuals

Hendrik De Smet

Cognitive Linguistics 31 (2):251-278 (2020)

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Lifespan change in grammaticalisation as frequency-sensitive automation: William Faulkner and the let alone construction.Jakob Neels - 2020 - Cognitive Linguistics 31 (2):339-365.details This paper explores the added value of studying intra- and inter-speaker variation in grammaticalisation based on idiolect corpora. It analyses the usage patterns of the English let alone construction in a self-compiled William Faulkner corpus against the backdrop of aggregated community data. Vast individual differences (early Faulkner vs. late Faulkner vs. peers) in frequencies of use are observed, and these frequency differences correlate with different degrees of grammaticalisation as measured in terms of host-class and syntactic context expansion. The corpus findings (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Individual corpus data predict variation in judgments: testing the usage-based nature of mental representations in a language transfer setting.Maria Mos, Ad Backus & Marie Barking - 2022 - Cognitive Linguistics 33 (3):481-519.details This study puts the usage-based assumption that our linguistic knowledge is based on usage to the test. To do so, we explore individual variation in speakers’ language use as established based on corpus data – both in terms of frequency of use and productivity of use – and link this variation to the same participants’ responses in an experimental judgment task. The empirical focus is on transfer by native German speakers living in the Netherlands, who oftentimes experience transfer from their (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Semantic micro-dynamics as a reflex of occurrence frequency: a semantic networks approach.Andreas Baumann, Klaus Hofmann, Anna Marakasova, Julia Neidhardt & Tanja Wissik - 2023 - Cognitive Linguistics 34 (3-4):533-568.details This article correlates fine-grained semantic variability and change with measures of occurrence frequency to investigate whether a word’s degree of semantic change is sensitive to how often it is used. We show that this sensitivity can be detected within a short time span (i.e., 20 years), basing our analysis on a large corpus of German allowing for a high temporal resolution (i.e., per month). We measure semantic variability and change with the help of local semantic networks, combining elements of deep (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Individuality in complex systems: A constructionist approach.Lynn Anthonissen & Peter Petré - 2020 - Cognitive Linguistics 31 (2):185-212.details For a long time, linguists more or less denied the existence of individual differences in grammatical knowledge. While recent years have seen an explosion of research on individual differences, most usage-based research has failed to address this issue and has remained reluctant to study the synergy between individual and community grammars. This paper focuses on individual differences in linguistic knowledge and processing, and examines how these differences can be integrated into a more comprehensive constructionist theory of grammar. The examination is (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Cognition in construction grammar: Connecting individual and community grammars.Lynn Anthonissen - 2020 - Cognitive Linguistics 31 (2):309-337.details This paper examines, on the basis of a longitudinal corpus of 50 early modern authors, how change at the aggregate level of the community interacts with variation and change at the micro-level of the individual language user. In doing so, this study aims to address the methodological gap between collective change and entrenchment, that is, the gap between language as a social phenomenon and the cognitive processes responsible for the continuous reorganization of linguistic knowledge in individual speakers. Taking up the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations

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