Publication: Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora
Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora
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Reuter, K., Baumgartner, L., & Willemsen, P. (2024). Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora. Language and Cognition, 16(2), 263–282. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.35
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Philosophers and linguists currently lack the means to reliably identify evaluative concepts and measure their evaluative intensity. Using a corpus-based approach, we present a new method to distinguish evaluatively thick and thin adjectives like ‘courageous’ and ‘awful’ from descriptive adjectives like ‘narrow,’ and from value-associated adjectives like ‘sunny.’ Our study suggests that the modifiers ‘truly’ and ‘really’ frequently highlight the evaluative dimension of thick and thin adjectives, allowing for them to be uniquely classi
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- Reuter, Kevin
- Baumgartner, Lucien
- Willemsen, Pascale
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Reuter, K., Baumgartner, L., & Willemsen, P. (2024). Tracing thick and thin concepts through corpora. Language and Cognition, 16(2), 263–282. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2023.35
