Linguists have identified a number of types of recurrent semantic change, and have proposed a number of explanations, usually based on specific lexical items. This paper takes a different approach, by using a distributional semantic model to identify and quantify semantic change across an entire lexicon in a completely bottom-up fashion, and by examining which distributional properties of words...

This paper aims to examine the theoretical context of the synchronic and diachronic versions of the Dutch Book argument. The paper begins with a brief characterization of the significance of making an interpretation of the theory of probability after Kolmogorov’s contribution. Following this, the core of an intended model – i.e., subjective probability or degrees of belief – will be described a...

The specialised lexicon belongs to the most prominent attributes of specialised writing: Terms function as semantically dense encodings of specialised concepts, which, in the absence of terms, would require lengthy explanations and descriptions. In this paper, we argue that terms are the result of diachronic processes on both the semantic and the morpho-syntactic level. Very little is known abo...

The traditional discourse on emergent relationship, developed especially in the context of weak and strong emergence, significantly shifted in the direction of making a distinction between synchronic and diachronic emergence. The synchronic concept of emergent entities means that these are irreducible to their parts, e.g. the properties that these entities exhibit are not the properties of the ...

This paper presents a software framework for the registration and visualization of layered image sets. To demonstrate the utility of these tools, we apply them to the St. Chad Gospels, relying on images of each page of the manuscript as it appeared over time. An automated registration pipeline is used to perform nonrigid registration on each series of images. To visualize the differences betwee...

This paper explicates two notions of emergence which are based on two ways of distinguishing levels of properties for dynamical systems. Once the levels are defined, the strategies of characterizing the relation of higher level to lower level properties as diachronic and synchronic emergence are the same. In each case, the higher level properties are said to be emergent if they are ‘novel’ or ‘...