[Corpora-List] examples of the use of the terms "prototypical" > or "prototypicality"

Sat Jun 28 09:00:54 UTC 2014

Hi Erin/Alex
Apologies to all for hitting 'send' before inserting the subject line in my previous email....

One additional point: I was interested to see, glancing through the occurrences of 'prototypical'  in
009_2004_V1_Patrick HANKS_Corpus pattern ... - Euralex<http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDkQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.euralex.org%2Felx_proceedings%2FEuralex2004%2F009_2004_V1_Patrick%2520HANKS_Corpus%2520pattern%2520analysis.pdf&ei=9n2uU-e4Hu2g7AadnYCADA&usg=AFQjCNGtE5j1N-FunxRyaCWmROMIYFk_Ng&bvm=bv.69837884,d.ZGU>www.euralex.org/.../009_2004_V1_Patrick%20HANKS_Corpus%20patt...
that he *rarely* used it *in the way that Erin specified*, namely "the most central use of a word"....

Instead , i noticed it was mostly 'prototypical syntagmatic *patterns*, prototypical *usage*, prototypical *direct objects*, etc',
i.e. linguistic items/features at higher levels of abstraction than 'word senses'.

I didn't look carefully enough, so there may a citation in Erin's limited sense, but if not, perhaps Patrick was, consciously
or subconsciously, telling us something about his understanding of the relationship between 'prototypes' and 'word senses'?

>>From various conversations with Patrick, i remember the names Jackendoff, Rosch, and Wierzbicka came up in connection with
prototype theory, but i can't remember any details, i'm afraid...

best
ramesh

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Dear all

Various bits of discussion on this in several places in Patrick's 2013 book, including around pp90-105 and 340, but it's pretty much what the whole book is about - norms (cf prototypes) not just of lexis but of pretty much any type of language use, and exploitations.

    * Hanks, P. 2013. Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations . Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Some great quotes too, eg p91-92 " Prototypical, normal usage is very easy to spot?; it is also very boring."

Best
alex

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> De: "Erin McKean" <erin at logocracy.com>
> À: corpora at uib.no
> Envoyé: Samedi 28 Juin 2014 03:26:25
> Objet: [Corpora-List] examples of the use of the terms "prototypical"
> or "prototypicality"

> Dear Corpora-Lers,

> Does anyone have handy citations for the use of "prototypical" or
> "prototypicality" in corpus linguistics to mean something roughly
> equivalent to "the most central use of a word, especially in regards
> to
> referents or collocations"?

> I'm thinking of the case where you describe senses of a word in an
> order
> that roughly maps to "core -- periphery" rather than historical order
> or
> frequency of use. E.g. for things like "cask", the "water-tight
> vessel"
> would be a more prototypical sense than the "unit of capacity for
> what
> can be held in a cask" sense.

> My feeling is that this is described quite beautifully by Patrick
> Hanks
> somewhere but I can't seem to find a reference!

> Any help gratefully appreciated!

> Yours,

> Erin
> ---------------------
> Erin McKean
> @emckean/@reverb/@wordnik
> wordnik.com
> helloreverb.com

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From: Krishnamurthy, Ramesh
Sent: 28 June 2014 09:44
To: erin at logocracy.com
Cc: corpora at uib.no
Subject:

Hi Erin

I just typed 'hanks prototypical' into Google and obtained several hits...

#1 The website at seems to be down at the moment,
but there is at least one citation at nlp.fi.muni.cz/projekty/cpa/

#2 one of the google hits was patrick hanks's paper at:
009_2004_V1_Patrick HANKS_Corpus pattern ... - Euralex<http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDkQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.euralex.org%2Felx_proceedings%2FEuralex2004%2F009_2004_V1_Patrick%2520HANKS_Corpus%2520pattern%2520analysis.pdf&ei=9n2uU-e4Hu2g7AadnYCADA&usg=AFQjCNGtE5j1N-FunxRyaCWmROMIYFk_Ng&bvm=bv.69837884,d.ZGU>www.euralex.org/.../009_2004_V1_Patrick%20HANKS_Corpus%20patt...

#3 this paper's list of references includes:
Hanks, Patrick. 1994. 'Linguistic Norms and Pragmatic Explanations, or Why
Lexicographers need Prototype Theory and Vice Versa' in F. Kiefer, G. Kiss, and J.
Pajzs (eds.), Papers in Computational Lexicography: Complex '94. Research institute
for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

#4 Google Scholar offers 4,950 hits for 'hanks prototypical'

best
ramesh
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:26:25 -0700
From: Erin McKean <erin at logocracy.com>
Subject: [Corpora-List] examples of the use of the terms
        "prototypical" or       "prototypicality"
To: corpora at uib.no

Dear Corpora-Lers,

Does anyone have handy citations for the use of "prototypical" or
"prototypicality" in corpus linguistics to mean something roughly
equivalent to "the most central use of a word, especially in regards to
referents or collocations"?

I'm thinking of the case where you describe senses of a word in an order
that roughly maps to "core -- periphery" rather than historical order or
frequency of use. E.g. for things like "cask", the "water-tight vessel"
would be a more prototypical sense than the "unit of capacity for what
can be held in a cask" sense.

My feeling is that this is described quite beautifully by Patrick Hanks
somewhere but I can't seem to find a reference!

Any help gratefully appreciated!

Yours,

Erin
---------------------
Erin McKean
@emckean/@reverb/@wordnik
wordnik.com
helloreverb.com

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