Quantitative aspects of the clause: Length, position and depth of the clause

Abstract

ABSTRACT The present study focuses on the quantitative aspects of clauses related to the empirical study on valency. We employed the length of clause, the position of clause, and the depth of clause as the linguistic entities. It can be observed that there are relationships with significant functions among these entities. A relationship between the position and the depth of clause obeys Köhler’s model while a relationship between the length and the position of the clause shows opposite functions to Köhler’s model. A relationship between the depth and the length of the clause shows a decreasing function. However, length can be affected by other entities. The method of measuring entities, e.g. a position of the clause in the sentence must be reconsidered.