Käändevormist sõnaks: mida näitab sagedus?

Vainik, Ene; Paulsen, Geda; Lohk, Ahti

doi:10.5128/erya17.16

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“…The only precondition is that data about relative corpus frequencies of the patterns are needed. The results can be applied to develop a multi-parameter application to determine the relative adjectivity of a word or a word form, e.g., the adjectivizing participles or nominals (for the transition zones of adjectives with other lexical classes in Estonian, see Vainik et al 2020). Since the morphosyntactic patterns characteristic of a PoS are language-specific, so is the outcome of our examination.…”

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Towards the morphosyntactic corpus profile of prototypical adjectives in Estonian

Vainik

Paulsen

Lohk

et al. 2023

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The transition zones between traditional word classes cause problems in lexicography. This research addresses the issue of estimating the level of adjectivization in Estonian by proposing a set of close-context indicators ("test patterns") based on the existing literature and detectable in annotated corpus text. The profile of prototypical adjectives (the "reference profile") is established by analyzing the normalized frequencies of the test patterns in a random sample of validated adjectives (N = 100). A scale of similarity to the reference profile is established by using the method of calculating Euclidean distances, which is considered a heuristic of the cumulative similarity vs. the difference. As a result, the scalar nature of the similarity to the reference profile is revealed, among both validated adjectives and the control group of yet underspecified lexicographic headword candidates (N = 100). The results are discussed in respect to improving the toolbox of the test patterns as well as in respect to future studies on some intriguing features of the actual corpus behavior of adjectives as compared to what would be expected by their morphosyntactic potential described in the literature.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%