Translations as evidence for semantics: an illustration (1).

From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract

Though a corpus-based linguistics is potentially more empirical than the intuition-based kind, the mere use of a corpus does not guarantee empiricalness. A monolingual corpus is good for counting forms but it does not readily reveal their meanings. Since meanings are not directly observable, the monolingual corpus can only provide circumstantial evidence for them. Their (psychological) reality, however, can only be established through informant testing. But then, few linguists have the facilities to do more than pay lip-service to the use of informants. The ...

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