Lexical coherence in contemporary Italian: a lectometric analysis KU Leuven
This paper digs into the theoretical question of linguistic coherence by investigating lexical variation of contemporary Italian. In order to tackle issues regarding the coherence of lexical choice, variation is investigated with methods from lectometry which approaches the structure of language varieties (i.e. lects) by studying aggregate-level lexical distances between them. Based on uniformity measures, as introduced by Geeraerts et al. in ...