Format:
XX, 282 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9783110300796
Series Statement:
Trends in linguistics 260
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss., 2012
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Introduction.The problem in a nutshell : how do speakers know how productive each slot is? ;Preliminary remarks on usage-based theories ;Argument structure, argument selection and adjuncts ;Requirements for a theory of syntactic productivity ;Chapters in this book -- (Re-)defining productivity : from morphology to syntax.General definitions in previous work ;What productivity applies to : morphology versus syntax ;Granularity and grades of productivity ;Criteria for productivity ;Productivity versus creativity ;Roadmap : towards a productivity complex -- Morphological productivity measures.Methodological remarks on testing productivity measures ;Using type counts : V ;Token counts and in-category vocabulary : N(C), f(C) and Vc ;Using hapax legomena : Baayen's ... * and ... ;Vocabulary growth, frequency spectrums, ... and ... ;Estimating total vocabulary : Zipf's Law, LNRE models and S ;Measuring global productivity : I, ... and P* ;Summary : measuring morphological productivity -- Adapting measures to the syntactic domain.Methodological remarks on using corpus data ;Types and type counts in syntax ;Argument selection in competing constructions : prepositional and postpositional wegen in German ;Different heads, different measures : ranking productivity for direct object selection in English transitive verbs ;Productivity in multiple slots : the case of comparative correlatives ;Interim conclusion : measuring productivity for syntactic argument slots -- Lexical semantics and world knowledge.Semantic approaches to argument selection ;Can lexical semantics and world knowledge explain novel argument selection? ;Argument selection in (near) synonymous heads and constructions ;Semantic and selectional effects in derivations from the same stem ;Semantic-pragmatic motivation and syntactic alternations ;World knowledge and argument selection in translational equivalents ;Interim conclusion : towards a usage-based account of novel argument selection -- Representation within a usage-based productivity grammar.Productivity as knowledge and the innocent speaker ;A formalization of the Productivity Complex ;Explicitly modeling entrenchment and productivity ;Why do skewed distributions lead to productivity? : a Hebbian cognitive account of argument categorization ;Lexical choice and the structure of the mental lexicon ;Relation types in the mental lexicon ;Interim conclusion : outline of rules in a productivity grammar -- Conclusion.Main results of this study ;What models of grammar are compatible with these results? ;Outlook -- Appendices.Queries ;Linear regression model with quadratic term for -saml-bar -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110303919
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Zeldes, Amir, 1980 - Productivity in argument selection Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 ISBN 9783110300796
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Zeldes, Amir, 1980 - Productivity in Argument Selection Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012 ISBN 9783110303919
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Argument
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Auswahl
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Produktivität
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Deutsch
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Argument
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Auswahl
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Produktivität
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