Profile-based measures of lexical variation. Four case studies on variation in word choice between Belgian and Netherlandic Dutch. KU Leuven
In their pivotal work Convergentie en divergentie in de Nederlandse woordenschat: Een onderzoek naar kleding- en voetbaltermen Geeraerts, Grondelaers & Speelman (1999) introduce the notion of profile-based measures of lexical variation. The adopted profile-based perspective takes its starting point in the profile of a concept, which can be defined as all alternative lexicalisations of that concept in a given source, distinguished ...