Word order flexibility: a typometric study
| Autor: | Kahane, Sylvain, Peng, Ziqian, Gerdes, Kim |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (MoDyCo), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sciences et Technologies des Langues (STL), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Owen Rambow, François Lareau |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023) Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023 Depling, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023, Mar 2023, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., United States |
| Popis: | version modifiée le 14 avril 2023, correction des typo à la page 8, pas d’autres modifications, à part la mise en page; International audience; This paper introduces a typometric measure of flexibility, which quantifies the variability of head-dependent word order on the whole set of treebanks of a language or on specific constructions. The measure is based on the notion of head-initiality and we show that it can be computed for all of languages of the Universal Dependency treebank set, that it does not require ad-hoc thresholds to categorize languages or constructions, and that it can be applied with any granularity of constructions and languages. We compare our results with Bakker’s (1998) categorical flexibility index. Typometric flexibility is shown to be a good measure for characterizing the language distribution with respect to word order for a given construction, and for estimating whether a construction predicts the global word order behavior of a language. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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