Chapter 9 | Exercise 1
The VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus contains 735 metaphoric uses of the preposition on (e.g. rely on somebody) and 331 non-metaphoric uses (e.g. a girl on the bridge). What is the proportion of metaphoric uses in the total uses of the preposition (also express it as a percentage)? What are the odds of metaphoric vs. non-metaphoric uses?
The proportion is almost 0.69, or 69%:
> 735/(331 + 735)
[1] 0.6894934
> prop.table(c(735, 331))
[1] 0.6894934 0.3105066
The odds are 2.22:
> 735/331
[1] 2.220544