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LINGUISTIC PROFILES - JULIA KUZNETSOVA GEBUNDEN

The monograph investigates the relationship between form and meaning in different domains and
centers on a group of methods referred to as ?linguistic profiles? that have been developed
recently by researchers at the University of Tromsø. These methods are based on the observation
that there is a strong correlation between semantic and distributional properties of linguistic
units. This book discusses grammatical  semantic  constructional  collostructional and
diachronic profiles. Linguistic profiles as a group of methods are based on recent developments
in the area of cognitive and functional linguistics: 1) form in language always has a relation
to meaning  2) a categorical approach to language is replaced with an understanding of language
as a gradient phenomenon  which is investigated via statistics  3) grammar is seen as a
usage-based phenomenon. Throughout the book we see that each of the profiles determines a
correlation between certain forms and certain meanings. By studying the distribution of
different forms we can uncover the semantic restrictions standing behind them.

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