Code
01G01319
Duration
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2023
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Discourse analysis
- Logic, methodology and epistemology of linguistics
- Other languages and literary studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
Productivity
constructions
syntax
semantics
frequency
diachrony
corpus
on-line language processing
lexis/grammar cline
semantic vector spaces
coercion
language comparison
personality traits
sociolinguistics
Project description
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, to on-line and off-line language processing, and to measure the impact of
personal variables. Only in this way can one arrive at a better understanding of what productivity is.