Argument structure and text genre: cross-corpus evaluation of the distributional characteristics of argument structure realizations

Abstract

Argument structure and text genre: cross-corpus evaluation of the distributional characteristics of argument structure realizations 1.

The argument structure of psych-verbs: A quantitative corpus study on cognitive entrenchment

“…Some of the results were as follows (cf. Engelberg et al 2012): -While some verbs hardly show any cross-corpus differences with respect to the distribution of argument realization patterns, other verbs differ widely across corpora, that is, across register and medium. -Often particular stylistic properties attached to registers account for the distribution of argument realization patterns, that is, the tendency to employ many passives and few addressee datives in scientific texts is the result of a tendency for impersonal descriptions in scientific texts.…”

“…Roland and Jurafsky (1998) and Roland (2001) attribute influences of this sort to the preference of particular kinds of discourse for particular verb senses, which, in turn, are associated with different argument structures. Some more recent studies have also been able to show the extent to which the distribution of argument structure patterns is influenced by register and by the distinction between spoken and written language (Gries 2011;Engelberg et al 2012). To the degree that discourse frequencies govern the degree of entrenchment of a linguistic entity, the dependency of frequencies on genre raises the question of whether entrenchment is a notion that is to be understood relative to particular communicative situations, such as writing a letter, giving a talk, or having a chat on the phone.…”

“…The frequencies were then subjected to several statistical analyses, such as correlation analyses, cluster analyses, multidimensional scaling, and association measures. The data on psych-verbs discussed in this paper comes from three different studies: (i) German verbs in newspaper texts (Engelberg 2015), (ii) German verbs in corpora representing different text genres (Engelberg et al 2012), and (iii) German psych-verbs and their Romanian counterparts in newspaper texts (Cosma & Engelberg 2014). All these studies were explorative, non-hypothesis-driven investigations.…”

“…We created a verb profile for each verb and performed a number of statistical analyses (correlations, cluster analysis, multi-dimensional scaling) (for details cf. Engelberg et al 2012).…”

Nuevos retos para la lexicografía pedagógica bilingüe alemán-español

“…En el módulo 3 se especifica la información sintagmática mediante los datos basados en la frecuencia empírica acerca de cada argumento y sus características morfosintácticas y semánticas 17 (cf. Engelberg et alii 2012, Engelberg 2015a, a la vez que se ofrece un posible equivalente en la lengua de contacto para cada acepción. La detallada información semántica, funcional y morfosintáctica relacionada con cada argumento 18 proporciona los matices específicos en los que se basan muchas de las divergencias léxicas a nivel inter-e intralingual y a los cuales se les presta especial atención 19 .…”