Myachykov, A., Thompson, D., Ferreira, F. and Scheepers, C. (2012) Lexical restrictions on passive uses in English: a large-scale corpus investigation [Poster]. In: AMLAP 2012: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Riva del Garda, Italy, 06-08 Sep 2012,
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Abstract
Using a combination of Principal Component Analysis and machine-learning techniques on large-scale corpus data, we demonstrate (a) that passive verb-uses are consistent across regional variants (American vs. British English) and modalities (spoken vs. written), (b) that the use of different passive-forms (get or be, full or truncated) is constrained by the notional verb, and (c) that there is a clear relationship between syntactic and semantic similarity in the clustering of notional verbs. The results support lexical/functional accounts of the English passive.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Scheepers, Dr Christoph and Myachykov, Dr Andriy |
| Authors: | Myachykov, A., Thompson, D., Ferreira, F., and Scheepers, C. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies |
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