A statistical model of syntactic and nonsyntactic factors affecting relative clause placement in Hindi
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Adriana Molina-Muñoz
Abstract
Hindi is an SOV language that allows scrambling and has null arguments. Finite relative clauses can occupy three different positions: at the left edge of the main clause (left peripheral), at the right edge of the main clause (right peripheral), and immediately after the nominal head they modify (adnominal). The present study applies quantitative methods to a corpus of 2,000 sentences to investigate whether syntactic locality, grammatical weight, linear distance, and information structure affect the position of the relative clause at the left and right peripheries. A Multinomial Logistic Regression was selected as the prediction model. The predictability of the model was tested by means of a Confusion matrix or Error matrix.
Abstract
Hindi is an SOV language that allows scrambling and has null arguments. Finite relative clauses can occupy three different positions: at the left edge of the main clause (left peripheral), at the right edge of the main clause (right peripheral), and immediately after the nominal head they modify (adnominal). The present study applies quantitative methods to a corpus of 2,000 sentences to investigate whether syntactic locality, grammatical weight, linear distance, and information structure affect the position of the relative clause at the left and right peripheries. A Multinomial Logistic Regression was selected as the prediction model. The predictability of the model was tested by means of a Confusion matrix or Error matrix.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface vii
- Contents xi
- Acknowledgements xiii
- On the syntax of comparative clauses in Vedic Sanskrit … like someone eating the foam off the water 1
- Some questions about yád in Vedic 23
- A statistical model of syntactic and nonsyntactic factors affecting relative clause placement in Hindi 43
- Optionality and variation in agreement in some participles in Hindi-Urdu 77
- A cross-linguistic approach to sentential subjects in Kannada 119
- Relation between animacy and case marking in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages 173
- Participles with a semantic void in Koints 191
- Competition between vectored verbs and factored verbs in Hindi-Urdu, Marathi and Gujarati 207
- How similarly do Hindi rakhnā and Japanese oku PUT behave as a V2? A corpus-based comparative analysis 243
- The use of vector verbs in early modern Tamil 261
- Reflexive and reciprocal marking in Mising 291
- Reciprocals in Kokborok — A Case of Syntactic Convergence 311
- A cognitive semantic analysis of locative and spatial constructions in Bangla 339
- Revisiting Pāṇini’s generative power 361
- Hindi root allomorphy: Insights from phonological and morphosyntactic theory 381
- Lexeme and speech syllables in English and Hindi. A case for syllable structure 415
- List of contributors 463
- List of contributors 469
- Index of languages 477
- Index of subjects 479
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Preface vii
- Contents xi
- Acknowledgements xiii
- On the syntax of comparative clauses in Vedic Sanskrit … like someone eating the foam off the water 1
- Some questions about yád in Vedic 23
- A statistical model of syntactic and nonsyntactic factors affecting relative clause placement in Hindi 43
- Optionality and variation in agreement in some participles in Hindi-Urdu 77
- A cross-linguistic approach to sentential subjects in Kannada 119
- Relation between animacy and case marking in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages 173
- Participles with a semantic void in Koints 191
- Competition between vectored verbs and factored verbs in Hindi-Urdu, Marathi and Gujarati 207
- How similarly do Hindi rakhnā and Japanese oku PUT behave as a V2? A corpus-based comparative analysis 243
- The use of vector verbs in early modern Tamil 261
- Reflexive and reciprocal marking in Mising 291
- Reciprocals in Kokborok — A Case of Syntactic Convergence 311
- A cognitive semantic analysis of locative and spatial constructions in Bangla 339
- Revisiting Pāṇini’s generative power 361
- Hindi root allomorphy: Insights from phonological and morphosyntactic theory 381
- Lexeme and speech syllables in English and Hindi. A case for syllable structure 415
- List of contributors 463
- List of contributors 469
- Index of languages 477
- Index of subjects 479
