07/11/2025
The 2nd heavily revised, updated and now illustrated edition of the on-line free to download ‘A Short History of the Philosophies Underpinning Corpus Linguistics: From Aristotle to AI’ is now available at:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17723204
This volume/long essay traces the intertwined histories of linguistic and philosophical thought that shaped—and sometimes resisted—the emergence of corpus linguistics.
Contact: [email protected]
New themes include:
• Metaphorophobia in classical philosophy.
• How and why CL can fruitfully cohabit and collaborate with AI/LLMs
• Ontological and epistemological differences between CL, CaDS and LLMs. LLMs: just artefacts or self-organising organisms (Kant)?
• How AI learns metaphorical usage and evaluation. Are there patterns of creative language (including humour) that AI can acquire then use?
• CL as a physical and a human science: causality (Bacon) versus teleology (Aristotle)
• CL/CaDS and the revenge of evaluation, from Hunston to evaluative cohesion.
