{"title":"红裙子很可爱:为什么主观形容词更常用作谓语?","authors":"Lelia Glass","doi":"10.1515/cllt-2024-0044","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Which adjectives tend to occur as attributive (<jats:italic>the cute/red dress</jats:italic>) versus predicative (<jats:italic>the dress is cute/red</jats:italic>) and why? Building on findings from Wiegand et al. (2013. Predicative adjectives: An unsupervised criterion to extract subjective adjectives. In Lucy Vanderwende, Hal DauméIII & Katrin Kirchhoff (eds.), <jats:italic>Proceedings of the 2013 conference of the North American chapter of the </jats:italic> <jats:italic>Association for Computational Linguistics</jats:italic> <jats:italic>: Human language technologies (NAACL-HLT)</jats:italic>, 534–539. Atlanta, GA: Association for Computational Linguistics) and Vartiainen (2013. Subjectivity, indefiniteness and semantic change. <jats:italic>English Language and Linguistics</jats:italic> 17(1). 157–179), this paper argues that subjective adjectives such as <jats:italic>cute</jats:italic> tend to be placed in predicative position not just because they often describe discourse-new information, but because this position serves to foreground information that the hearer may disagree with. This claim is supported using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, Mark. 2008. <jats:italic>The corpus of contemporary American English: One billion words, 1990-present</jats:italic>. Available at: <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" ext-link-type=\"uri\" xlink:href=\"https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/\">https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/</jats:ext-link>) combined with human annotations for subjectivity from Scontras et al. (2017. 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In Lucy Vanderwende, Hal DauméIII & Katrin Kirchhoff (eds.), <jats:italic>Proceedings of the 2013 conference of the North American chapter of the </jats:italic> <jats:italic>Association for Computational Linguistics</jats:italic> <jats:italic>: Human language technologies (NAACL-HLT)</jats:italic>, 534–539. Atlanta, GA: Association for Computational Linguistics) and Vartiainen (2013. Subjectivity, indefiniteness and semantic change. <jats:italic>English Language and Linguistics</jats:italic> 17(1). 157–179), this paper argues that subjective adjectives such as <jats:italic>cute</jats:italic> tend to be placed in predicative position not just because they often describe discourse-new information, but because this position serves to foreground information that the hearer may disagree with. 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哪些形容词倾向于作为属性词(可爱/红色连衣裙)出现,哪些形容词倾向于作为谓词(连衣裙很可爱/红色)出现,为什么?以 Wiegand 等人(2013.谓语形容词:提取主观形容词的无监督标准。见 Lucy Vanderwende、Hal DauméIII & Katrin Kirchhoff(编辑),《计算语言学协会北美分会 2013 年会议论文集:人类语言技术》(NAACL-HLT),534-539 页。亚特兰大,佐治亚州:计算语言学协会)和 Vartiainen(2013 年。主观性、不确定性和语义变化。英语语言和语言学 17(1).157-179),本文认为,诸如可爱之类的主观形容词往往被置于谓语位置,这不仅是因为它们经常描述话语新信息,还因为这一位置有助于突出听者可能不同意的信息。本文使用《当代美国英语语料库》(Corpus of Contemporary American English)中的数据(Davies, Mark.2008.The corpus of contemporary American English:The corpus of contemporary American English: One billion words, 1990-present.Available at: https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/)结合 Scontras 等人(2017.主观性预测形容词排序偏好。Open Mind 1(1).53-66) et seq.;以及来自美国国家美术馆的图片说明与描述数据(针对视力好的人与视力差的人)。一个制作实验操纵了话语语境,进一步表明形容词在表达有争议的信息时倾向于被置于谓语位置。总之,本文探讨了形容词的词汇语义是如何塑造形容词倾向于使用的语用语境的,而语用语境又是如何塑造使用形容词的句子的语法的。
The red dress is cute: why subjective adjectives are more often predicative
Which adjectives tend to occur as attributive (the cute/red dress) versus predicative (the dress is cute/red) and why? Building on findings from Wiegand et al. (2013. Predicative adjectives: An unsupervised criterion to extract subjective adjectives. In Lucy Vanderwende, Hal DauméIII & Katrin Kirchhoff (eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 conference of the North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human language technologies (NAACL-HLT), 534–539. Atlanta, GA: Association for Computational Linguistics) and Vartiainen (2013. Subjectivity, indefiniteness and semantic change. English Language and Linguistics 17(1). 157–179), this paper argues that subjective adjectives such as cute tend to be placed in predicative position not just because they often describe discourse-new information, but because this position serves to foreground information that the hearer may disagree with. This claim is supported using data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, Mark. 2008. The corpus of contemporary American English: One billion words, 1990-present. Available at: https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) combined with human annotations for subjectivity from Scontras et al. (2017. Subjectivity predicts adjective ordering preferences. Open Mind 1(1). 53–66) et seq.; and data from image captions versus descriptions (for seeing versus low-vision people) from the National Gallery of Art. A production experiment manipulates the discourse context to further show that adjectives tend to be placed in predicative position when they express controversial information. Overall, this paper explores how the lexical semantics of adjectives shapes the pragmatic contexts in which they tend to be used, which in turn shapes the syntax of the sentences using them.
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Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (CLLT) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing high-quality original corpus-based research focusing on theoretically relevant issues in all core areas of linguistic research, or other recognized topic areas. It provides a forum for researchers from different theoretical backgrounds and different areas of interest that share a commitment to the systematic and exhaustive analysis of naturally occurring language. Contributions from all theoretical frameworks are welcome but they should be addressed at a general audience and thus be explicit about their assumptions and discovery procedures and provide sufficient theoretical background to be accessible to researchers from different frameworks. Topics Corpus Linguistics Quantitative Linguistics Phonology Morphology Semantics Syntax Pragmatics.