... is a function of the information gained by giving a joint descrip-tion of a and b in terms of what they have in com-mon, compared to describing a and b separately. The relevant data in the ... pictures ar-ranged in an array on a screen. Of the three targets (a, b, c), c was always an object whose name in the norms was dissimilar to that of a and b. The semantic similarity of (nouns denoting) ... similar).We use the information contained in the SketchEngine database1(Kilgarriff, 2003), a largescale implementation of Lin’s theory basedon the BNC, which contains grammatical triples in the...