CLApr 14, 2018
Distribution-based Prediction of the Degree of Grammaticalization for German Prepositions
arXiv:1804.06719v11 citations
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This addresses a linguistic analysis problem for researchers studying grammaticalization, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to new data.
The study tested whether the degree of grammaticalization of German prepositions correlates with corpus-based contextual dispersion, finding a moderate correlation for word entropy and stronger correlations for frequency and number of context types.
We test the hypothesis that the degree of grammaticalization of German prepositions correlates with their corpus-based contextual dispersion measured by word entropy. We find that there is indeed a moderate correlation for entropy, but a stronger correlation for frequency and number of context types.