Distributional semantics embodies the idea that the context in which a word occurs reveals
the meaning of that word. In contemporary corpus linguistics, that idea takes shape in …

Type-based distributional semantics as embodied in vector space models has proven to be
a successful method for the retrieval of near-synonyms in large corpora. These words have …

This investigation aims to answer three questions: how, why and where does verbal
argument structure vary with respect to the alternation between the transitive and …

Lexical diversity, the amount of lexical variation shown by a particular concept, varies
between concepts. For the concept drunk, for instance, nearly 3000 English expressions …

This paper presents evidence from both corpora and agent-based simulation for the effect of
lectal contamination. By doing so, it shows how agent-based simulation can be used as a …

In this article, we report a large-scale corpus study aimed at tackling the (controversial)
question to what extent the European national varieties of Dutch, that is, Belgian and …

This article builds on computational tools to investigate the syntactic relationship between
the highly related European national varieties of Dutch, viz. Belgian Dutch (BD) and …

Conversation partners tend to copy elements of each other's utterances during a spoken
interaction. This article investigates possible asymmetries in this adaptive process. We study …

Lectal contamination is the language-external counterpart of what has been described as
constructional contamination (Pijpops Van de Velde 2016). In constructional contamination …

This paper argues that a lectometric approach may shed light on the distinction between
destandardization and demotization, a pair of concepts that plays a key role in ongoing …