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Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 356] 2021
► pp. 93–108

Linking the dependents

Quantitative-linguistic hypotheses on valency

| Universität Bayreuth
This chapter relates the syntactic and semantic aspects of case and valency to morphological properties and builds a model of these. Two linguistic hypotheses are derived and tested on corpus data and data of a lexicon which are built on the principles of Frame Semantics. My hypotheses are confirmed: (A) the larger the number of variables of a semantic predicate, the larger is the number of the syntactic dependents of the realized syntactic constructs, and (B) the larger the number of semantic roles, the larger is the tendency for shortening on the syntactic level.
Keywords: semantic and syntactic valency, morphological case, functional equivalents, frame semantics, FrameNet
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The functional equivalents of coding semantic case
  • 3.Quantitative definitions of valency
  • 4.Derivation of linguistic hypotheses of valency
  • 5.FrameNet data
  • 6.Statistical hypotheses and testing
  • 7.Interpretations and conclusions
  • References
Published online: 22 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.356.06ste
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