LINGUIST List 33.1361

Fri Apr 15 2022

FYI: Free Online Talk - Semantic Transfer and the OED: Investigating Metonymization

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everettlinguistlist.org>



Date: 12-Apr-2022
From: OED Team <oed.ukoup.com>
Subject: Free Online Talk - Semantic Transfer and the OED: Investigating Metonymization
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When?
26 May 2022, 16:00-16:45 (BST, UTC +1)

Book your place here:
http://tiny.cc/OED-Semantic-Transfer

Lauren Simon, holder of an MSt in Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, will describe the methodology and labelling process used in her investigation of semantic change through metonymization, and discuss some of her findings.
Who is this for?
- Researchers investigating semantic change
- Linguists interested in how and why new senses develop

Agenda:
- The unique contours and quirks of OED raw data and how to handle data cleaning
- The sample selection and data tagging processes: how does one determine which tags to use and how to apply them, particularly in borderline cases?
- Conclusions and interesting directions for future research - potentially interesting new research questions that can be tackled with working knowledge of how to use OED data as a rich resource.
- Q&A time: bring your questions to the panellist or send them in advance to oed.ukoup.com


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Lexicography; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics


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