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Realised overabundance in Estonian noun paradigms: A corpus study 爱沙尼亚语名词范式的实现过剩:语料库研究

Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0227

Mari Aigro, Virve-Anneli Vihman

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Uncertainty in the production of Czech noun and verb forms 捷克语名词和动词形式的不确定性

Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0231

Neil Bermel, Luděk Knittl, Alexandre Nikolaev

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Stem overgeneralizations in the acquisition of Croatian verbal morphology: Evidence from parental questionnaires 克罗地亚语词法习得中的词干过度概括:来自父母调查问卷的证据

Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0228

Gordana Hržica, Tomislava Bošnjak Botica, Sara Košutar

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The structuralist tradition meets empirical data: Corpus data enhancing the Czech Internet Language Reference Book 结构主义传统与经验数据的相遇:语料库数据对捷克网络语言参考书的增强

Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0230

Dominika Kováříková, Martin Beneš, Kamila Smejkalová, Oleg Kovářík

{"title":"The structuralist tradition meets empirical data: Corpus data enhancing the Czech Internet Language Reference Book","authors":"Dominika Kováříková, Martin Beneš, Kamila Smejkalová, Oleg Kovářík","doi":"10.3366/word.2023.0230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2023.0230","url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates how the corpus grammar tool GramatiKat can be used to improve and refine morphological information in the Internet Language Reference Book (ILRB), which presents complete declension paradigms for 45,632 standard Czech nouns. The paradigm tables are based mainly on morphological types, following structuralist conceptions of language as a fully articulated system. The paper discusses how to update the ILRB and provide users with empirically based grammatical information for individual word forms in each cell of the paradigm. All noun lemmas have been investigated using the GramatiKat tool for research into grammatical categories in Czech. The tool observes the distribution of word forms of a particular lexeme in comparison with the standard distribution across the whole word class. It is capable of identifying nouns that have an unusually high occurrence of a certain word form, as well as nouns with unattested word forms. GramatiKat is based on the data from two corpora of Czech written texts, SYN2015 and SYN2020 (200 million word tokens). The paper investigates the relationship between defectiveness and overabundance on one side and language variability and potentiality on the other. Based on the unique combination of data from the ILRB and GramatiKat, the paper suggests how information about unusually frequent or overabundant word forms as well as unattested ones should be pointed out, so that ILRB provides the user with accurate, empirically based data.","PeriodicalId":43166,"journal":{"name":"Word Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135565240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0225

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Studying negative evidence in Finnish language corpora 芬兰语料库中的否定证据研究

Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0229

Alexandre Nikolaev, Neil Bermel

{"title":"Studying negative evidence in Finnish language corpora","authors":"Alexandre Nikolaev, Neil Bermel","doi":"10.3366/word.2023.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/word.2023.0229","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the relationship between lower-than-expected frequencies of word forms and inherent gaps in Finnish inflectional paradigms. The research aims to determine whether it is possible to predict paradigmatic gaps from lower-than-expected frequencies of word forms. We examined Finnish nouns inflected in a marginal case (the instructive) and hypothesized that some of these nouns may potentially have gaps in their inflectional paradigms. However, we found that such gaps are contingent and do not cause uncertainty when filled. We find that the correlation between inherent gaps and lower frequencies is one-directional: predicting inherent gaps from lower-than-expected frequencies is problematic. The results suggest that any paradigmatic gap suggested by corpus frequency is more likely to be contingent than inherent, and that the less semantic need there is for a particular word form, the more likely it will be unattested even in a large corpus. The research highlights the importance of considering semantic profiles when analyzing the grammaticality of word forms and suggests that statistical tests like Fisher’s exact are not necessarily the right approach to tackle the problem of negative evidence in corpus studies.","PeriodicalId":43166,"journal":{"name":"Word Structure","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135565237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Affix rivalry in French demonym formation: The role of linguistic and non-linguistic parameters 法语魔词形成中的词缀竞争:语言和非语言参数的作用

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Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0223

Juliette Thuilier, D. Tribout, Marine Wauquier

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A distributional assessment of rivalry in word formation 词语形成竞争的分布评价

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Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0222

Matı́as Guzmán Naranjo, Olivier Bonami

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Affix rivalry: Theoretical and methodological challenges 词缀竞争:理论和方法上的挑战

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Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0218

R. Huyghe, Rossella Varvara

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A quantitative approach to doublets in Russian denominal adjective construction 俄语名词形容词结构中对偶词的定量分析

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Word Structure Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.3366/word.2023.0221

N. Bobkova, Fabio Montermini

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