Historical Dynamics of Lexical System as Random Walk Process
Victor Kromer
TL;DR
This paper models the evolution of word meanings over time as a semicontinuous random walk with reflecting and swallowing screens, providing a new quantitative framework for diachronic linguistic analysis.
Contribution
It introduces a novel random walk model for word meaning changes and verifies it using Russian word distribution data across different age periods.
Findings
Model effectively captures word meaning dynamics over time
Provides quantitative measures of word life cycle characteristics
Validated on Russian language data
Abstract
It is offered to consider word meanings changes in diachrony as semicontinuous random walk with reflecting and swallowing screens. The basic characteristics of word life cycle are defined. Verification of the model has been realized on the data of Russian words distribution on various age periods.
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Taxonomy
TopicsLinguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Lexicography and Language Studies