Structure and Frequency in Verb Classification
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In this paper, we investigate the linguistic relevance of the notion of frequency in theories of lexicon organisation, in particular the definition of verb classes. Traditionally, the subject matter of linguistics has been to develop linguistic representations to describe and explain language as a cognitive process, including language acquisition and language comprehension and production. Theories that have been developed to adhere to this research plan have largely been of the symbolic, algebraic, categorical kind. Quantitative methods and corpus-based data collection have been used extensively in the study of language acquisition, language processing, historical linguistics and sociolingustics, but they have been systematically excluded from the representations and the methods used in the study of formal grammars. The only recognition of non-categorical phenomena in traditional grammars has been the notion of markedness. But that need not be. Investigations of the link between a richly structured linguistic theory and the distributional properties of language are not contradictory with the goals of generative grammar. The availability of probabilistic information has been shown to affect the learnability of a language and to enable learning with less and poorer data (Horning 1969). There is also ample evidence of frequency effects in language processing (Seidenberg, MacDonald and Saffran 2002, MacDonald, Pearlmutter and Seidenberg 1994). Therefore, an investigation of the quantitative correlates of abstract linguistic concepts might in fact enhance the goals of generative grammar by elucidating the theoretical relationship between structure and frequency.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005