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        Date: 2020-01-02 13:28:44+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.525: colexification

In the same issue, there is a brief overview "The diverse way that
languages convey emotion" by Tage S. Rai on p 1517-8 which adds some
additional views.

--henry schaffer

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 8:07 AM Humanist  wrote:

>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 525.
>             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
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>         Date: 2020-01-02 00:53:59+00:00
>         From: Henry Schaffer 
>         Subject: "colexification", linguistics and computation
>
> I came across "Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal
> structure" by Joshua Conrad Jackson, et al, in Science 2019 Vol 377, Issue
> 6472 pp 1517-1522.
>
> While the publication is about linguistics, I found the computer/math/stat
> very interesting since it was used at a very large scale in this study. The
> database was assembled from 2,474 languages and was labelled with 2,909
> with 66,140 "individual cases of colexification". This couldn't have been
> studied and analyzed manually.
>
> A set of Supplementary Materials is available on the web (at the sciencemag
> site) which amount to another 60 pages or so.
>
> Oh, to quote from the paper, colexification refers to "instances in which
> multiple concepts are coexpressed by the same word form within a language."
>
> --henry schaffer



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