Susanne Vejdemo Researcher

Affiliated researcher, project: Towards Automatic Detection of Language Change.

Home Department: Department of Linguistics

My focus is on lexical and semantic change. Currently I am involved with the project Towards Automatic Detection of Language Change, where we seek to develop new and better method to automatically detect language change in digitzed corpora over time.

My PhD thesis was about different aspects of lexical replacement. In my thesis, I examine the phenomenon both from a top-down perspective (looking at cognate based rates of lexical replacement and building regression models to see what factors might influence the speed of lexical replacement for different parts of the vocabulary), and from a bottom-up perspective (a case study trying to pin down how much the color vocabulary of Swedish has changed in the last two generation, using Berlin&Kay paradigm elicitation tests).

Apart from cognitive linguistics and semantics, I have also worked and published in lexical and semantic typology.