Abstract
This paper explores verb-attached PPs as adjuncts or parts of verbal frames with the help of a large-scale valency-database generated from the output of a dependency parser. Our investigation is based on more than 240 million words of American and British English. We combine measures of surprise with measures of lexical diversity in order to study fixedness of various types. We also use these measures to explore the cline from verbal complement to adjunct and test statistical measures of surprise as a means of distinguishing complements from adjuncts. We calculate measures of surprise and variability for verb-preposition, verb-object-PP and other combinations in order to identify and locate verbal idioms.
| Item Type: | Scientific Publication in Electronic Form |
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| Communities & Collections: | 06 Faculty of Arts > English Department
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 820 English & Old English literatures
410 Linguistics
000 Computer science, knowledge & systems |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PP-attachment, , Corpus Linguistics, , Language Variation, , Lexicogrammar, , fixedness and variation, , collocations |
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| Editors: | Hoffmann Sebastian, Rayson Paul, Leech Geoffrey |
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| Language: | English |
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| Date: | 27 May 2011 |
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| Deposited On: | 06 Jan 2012 15:40 |
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| Last Modified: | 30 Jul 2020 02:29 |
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| Publisher: | University of Helsinki |
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| Series Name: | Varieng eSeries: Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English |
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| Additional Information: | Volume 6 / Volume Name: Methodological and Historical Dimensions of Corpus Linguistics |
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| OA Status: | Closed |
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| Free access at: | Official URL. An embargo period may apply. |
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| Official URL: | http://www.helsinki.fi/varieng/journal/volumes/06/lehmann_schneider/ |
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Lehmann, Hans Martin