Abstract This paper demonstrates the value of studying co-occurrence ‘quads’ – constellations four non-adjacent lemmas that consistently co-occur across spans up to 100 tokens for understanding discursive change. We map meaning onto quads as ‘discursive concepts’, which encompass encyclopaedic semantics, pragmatics, and context. investigate a high-frequency quad with high strength in EEBO-TCP: ...

Complex Concepts into Basic Concepts Rick Szostak University of Alberta Tory Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H4, Canada [email protected] 780-492-7645; FAX 780-492-3300 ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary communication, and thus the rate of progress in scholarly understanding, would be greatly enhanced if scholars had access to a universal classification of documents or ideas not grounded in particu...