Zeldes Productivity in Argument Selection

From Morphology to Syntax
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-030391-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 260, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeldes, Amir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;List of abbreviations and symbols;14
2;List of tables;16
3;List of figures xviii;21
4;Introduction;21
4.1;1. The problem in a nutshell: How do speakers know how productive each slot is?;21
4.2;2. Preliminary remarks on usage-based theories;25
4.3;3. Argument structure, argument selection and adjuncts;32
4.4;4. Requirements for a theory of syntactic productivity;34
4.5;5. Chapters in this book;35
5;2 (Re-)defining productivity: From morphology to syntax;37
5.1;1. General definitions in previous work;37
5.2;2. What productivity applies to: Morphology versus syntax;41
5.3;3. Granularity and grades of productivity;46
5.4;4. Criteria for productivity;53
5.5;5. Productivity versus creativity;59
5.6;6. Roadmap: Towards a productivity complex;65
6;3 Morphological productivity measures;68
6.1;1. Methodological remarks on testing productivity measures;68
6.2;2. Using type counts: V;69
6.3;3. Token counts and in-category vocabulary: N(C), f(C) and VC;77
6.4;4. Using hapax legomena: Baayen’s P * and P?;80
6.5;5. Vocabulary growth, frequency spectrums, A and .;88
6.6;6. Estimating total vocabulary: Zipf’s Law, LNRE models and S;96
6.7;7. Measuring global productivity: I,Iand P*;105
6.8;8. Summary: Measuring morphological productivity;112
7;4 Adapting measures to the syntactic domain;116
7.1;1. Methodological remarks on using corpus data;116
7.2;2. Types and type counts in syntax;118
7.3;3. Argument selection in competing constructions: Prepositional and postpositional wegen in German;126
7.4;4. Different heads, different measures: Ranking productivity for direct object selection in English transitive verbs;134
7.5;5. Productivity in multiple slots: The case of comparative correlatives;145
7.6;6. Interim conclusion: Measuring productivity for syntactic argument slots;155
8;5 Lexical semantics and world knowledge;158
8.1;1. Semantic approaches to argument selection;158
8.2;2. Can lexical semantics and world knowledge explain novel argument selection?;167
8.3;3. Argument selection in (near) synonymous heads and constructions;170
8.4;4. Semantic and selectional effects in derivations from the same stem;186
8.5;5. Semantic-pragmatic motivation and syntactic alternations;192
8.6;6. World knowledge and argument selection in translational equivalents;200
8.7;7. Interim conclusion: Towards a usage-based account of novel argument selection;207
9;6 Representation within a usage-based productivity grammar;210
9.1;1. Productivity as knowledge and the innocent speaker;211
9.2;2. A formalization of the Productivity Complex;213
9.3;3. Explicitly modeling entrenchment and productivity;216
9.4;4. Why do skewed distributions lead to productivity? A Hebbian cognitive account of argument categorization;221
9.5;5. Lexical choice and the structure of the mental lexicon;230
9.6;6. Relation types in the mental lexicon;239
9.7;7. Interim conclusion: Outline of rules in a productivity grammar;246
10;7 Conclusion;250
10.1;1. Main results of this study;250
10.2;2. What models of grammar are compatible with these results?;254
10.3;3. Outlook;257
11;Appendices;264
11.1;A Queries;264
11.2;B Linear regression model with quadratic term for -saml-bar;269
12;References;271
13;Author index;293
14;Subject index;297

Über Autor(innen)

Zeldes, Amir
Amir Zeldes, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.