The Skewed Frequency Hypothesis and the identification of valent nouns in English

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/pf/article/view/672/494" target="_blank" >https://www.journals.polon.uw.edu.pl/index.php/pf/article/view/672/494</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32798/pf.672" target="_blank" >10.32798/pf.672</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Skewed Frequency Hypothesis and the identification of valent nouns in English

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

I propose the Skewed Frequency Hypothesis, according to which the distribution of corpus types following immediately after the occurrences of a valent noun is significantly skewed, unlike with avalent nouns. The question explored in this paper is whether this observation can be used to retrieve a list of valent nouns from a corpus. Two simple ratios are used to measure the skewness of the distribution of types, and it is shown that the two ratios are correlated and serve as somewhat reliable cues of noun valency. The cases are discussed in which the two ratios suggest conflicting results, and it is argued that these cases serve as one of the arguments for viewing noun valency in English as a scalar phenomenon rather than a binary possibility (valent vs. avalent). Finally, I also discuss some other issues concerning noun valency in English, and based on the data, I suggest treating noun valency in terms of Construction Grammar.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Skewed Frequency Hypothesis and the identification of valent nouns in English

Popis výsledku anglicky

I propose the Skewed Frequency Hypothesis, according to which the distribution of corpus types following immediately after the occurrences of a valent noun is significantly skewed, unlike with avalent nouns. The question explored in this paper is whether this observation can be used to retrieve a list of valent nouns from a corpus. Two simple ratios are used to measure the skewness of the distribution of types, and it is shown that the two ratios are correlated and serve as somewhat reliable cues of noun valency. The cases are discussed in which the two ratios suggest conflicting results, and it is argued that these cases serve as one of the arguments for viewing noun valency in English as a scalar phenomenon rather than a binary possibility (valent vs. avalent). Finally, I also discuss some other issues concerning noun valency in English, and based on the data, I suggest treating noun valency in terms of Construction Grammar.

Druh

J_ost - Ostatní články v recenzovaných periodicích

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Prace Filologiczne

ISSN

0138-0567

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

75

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

PL - Polská republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

437-452

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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