Productivity in argument selection
Subtitle: from morphology to syntax
By: by Amir Zeldes
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 260; Trends in linguistics -- 260.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9783110300796
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Word formation; Productivity (Linguistics); Morphology; Syntax
Notes: Dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The problem in a nutshell : how do speakers know how productive each slot is? ;; title: Preliminary remarks on usage-based theories ;; title: Argument structure, argument selection and adjuncts ;; title: Requirements for a theory of syntactic productivity ;; title: Chapters in this book --; title: (Re-)defining productivity : from morphology to syntax.; title: General definitions in previous work ;; title: What productivity applies to : morphology versus syntax ;; title: Granularity and grades of productivity ;; title: Criteria for productivity ;; title: Productivity versus creativity ;; title: Roadmap : towards a productivity complex --; title: Morphological productivity measures.; title: Methodological remarks on testing productivity measures ;; title: Using type counts : V ;; title: Token counts and in-category vocabulary : N(C), f(C) and Vc ;; title: Using hapax legomena : Baayen's ... * and ... ;; title: Vocabulary growth, frequency spectrums, ... and ... ;; title: Estimating total vocabulary : Zipf's Law, LNRE models and S ;; title: Measuring global productivity : I, ... and P* ;; title: Summary : measuring morphological productivity --; title: Adapting measures to the syntactic domain.; title: Methodological remarks on using corpus data ;; title: Types and type counts in syntax ;; title: Argument selection in competing constructions : prepositional and postpositional wegen in German ;; title: Different heads, different measures : ranking productivity for direct object selection in English transitive verbs ;; title: Productivity in multiple slots : the case of comparative correlatives ;; title: Interim conclusion : measuring productivity for syntactic argument slots --; title: Lexical semantics and world knowledge.; title: Semantic approaches to argument selection ;; title: Can lexical semantics and world knowledge explain novel argument selection? ;; title: Argument selection in (near) synonymous heads and constructions ;; title: Semantic and selectional effects in derivations from the same stem ;; title: Semantic-pragmatic motivation and syntactic alternations ;; title: World knowledge and argument selection in translational equivalents ;; title: Interim conclusion : towards a usage-based account of novel argument selection --; title: Representation within a usage-based productivity grammar.; title: Productivity as knowledge and the innocent speaker ;; title: A formalization of the Productivity Complex ;; title: Explicitly modeling entrenchment and productivity ;; title: Why do skewed distributions lead to productivity? : a Hebbian cognitive account of argument categorization ;; title: Lexical choice and the structure of the mental lexicon ;; title: Relation types in the mental lexicon ;; title: Interim conclusion : outline of rules in a productivity grammar --; title: Conclusion.; title: Main results of this study ;; title: What models of grammar are compatible with these results? ;; title: Outlook ---- Appendices.-- Queries ;-- Linear regression model with quadratic term for -saml-bar-- References-- Author index-- Subject index.