@inproceedings{feltgen-2022-qualifiers,
title = "From qualifiers to quantifiers: semantic shift at the paradigm level",
author = "Feltgen, Quentin",
editor = "Tahmasebi, Nina and
Montariol, Syrielle and
Kutuzov, Andrey and
Hengchen, Simon and
Dubossarsky, Haim and
Borin, Lars",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change",
month = may,
year = "2022",
address = "Dublin, Ireland",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lchange-1.5",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.lchange-1.5",
pages = "44--53",
abstract = "Language change has often been conceived as a competition between linguistic variants. However, language units may be complex organizations in themselves, e.g. in the case of schematic constructions, featuring a free slot. Such a slot is filled by words forming a set or {`}paradigm{'} and engaging in inter-related dynamics within this constructional environment. To tackle this complexity, a simple computational method is offered to automatically characterize their interactions, and visualize them through networks of cooperation and competition. Applying this method to the French paradigm of quantifiers, I show that this method efficiently captures phenomena regarding the evolving organization of constructional paradigms, in particular the constitution of competing clusters of fillers that promote different semantic strategies overall.",
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%T From qualifiers to quantifiers: semantic shift at the paradigm level
%A Feltgen, Quentin
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%Y Kutuzov, Andrey
%Y Hengchen, Simon
%Y Dubossarsky, Haim
%Y Borin, Lars
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%8 May
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Markdown (Informal)
[From qualifiers to quantifiers: semantic shift at the paradigm level](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lchange-1.5) (Feltgen, LChange 2022)
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