Regular Dynamic Patterns of Verbal Valency Ellipsis in Modern Spoken Chinese
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Huiyuan Jin
Abstract
Valency is an important notion in dependency grammar. This research attempts to observe verb valency patterns from a dynamic perspective. Ellipsis provides us with a good opportunity to observe the regular dynamic patterns of verbal valencies. Three major conclusions are obtained: first, the rankfrequency distributions of ellipsis-related verbs with different valencies obey power law; second, the distributions of the elliptical patterns for the three categories of verbs obeys power law; verbs with different valencies display similar elliptical patterns to some degree, yet discrepancies still exist; third, the frequency of elliptical valency for two-valency verbs and the frequency of the dependency relations of the elliptical constituents in the three categories fit the power law. Moreover, the ellipsis of obligatory constituents are more likely to be subjects syntactically, or agents from a semantic aspect.
Abstract
Valency is an important notion in dependency grammar. This research attempts to observe verb valency patterns from a dynamic perspective. Ellipsis provides us with a good opportunity to observe the regular dynamic patterns of verbal valencies. Three major conclusions are obtained: first, the rankfrequency distributions of ellipsis-related verbs with different valencies obey power law; second, the distributions of the elliptical patterns for the three categories of verbs obeys power law; verbs with different valencies display similar elliptical patterns to some degree, yet discrepancies still exist; third, the frequency of elliptical valency for two-valency verbs and the frequency of the dependency relations of the elliptical constituents in the three categories fit the power law. Moreover, the ellipsis of obligatory constituents are more likely to be subjects syntactically, or agents from a semantic aspect.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents XI
- Dependency, Corpora and Cognition 1
- Interrelations among Dependency Tree Widths, Heights and Sentence Lengths 31
- Quantitative Analysis of Syntactic Dependency in Czech 53
- Dissortativity in a Bipartite Network of Dependency Relations and Communicative Functions 71
- Empirical Analyses of Valency Structures 93
- Regular Dynamic Patterns of Verbal Valency Ellipsis in Modern Spoken Chinese 101
- Negentropy of Dependency Types and Parts of Speech in the Clause 119
- Dynamic Valency and Dependency Distance 145
- Minimization and Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance in the Process of Second Language Acquisition 167
- Influences of Dependency Distance on the Syntactic Development of Deaf and Hard-ofhearing Students 191
- Positional Aspects of Dependency Distance 213
- Dependency Distance and Direction of English Relative Clauses 239
- Differences between English Subject Postmodifiers and Object Post-modifiers: From the Perspective of Dependency Distance 261
- How Do Universal Dependencies Distinguish Language Groups? 277
- A Quantitative Analysis on a Literary Genre Essay’s Syntactic Features 295
- A Multidimensional Model of Syntactic Dependency Trees for Authorship Attribution 315
- Subject Index 349
- Author Index 357
- List of Contributors 365
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Preface V
- Contents XI
- Dependency, Corpora and Cognition 1
- Interrelations among Dependency Tree Widths, Heights and Sentence Lengths 31
- Quantitative Analysis of Syntactic Dependency in Czech 53
- Dissortativity in a Bipartite Network of Dependency Relations and Communicative Functions 71
- Empirical Analyses of Valency Structures 93
- Regular Dynamic Patterns of Verbal Valency Ellipsis in Modern Spoken Chinese 101
- Negentropy of Dependency Types and Parts of Speech in the Clause 119
- Dynamic Valency and Dependency Distance 145
- Minimization and Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance in the Process of Second Language Acquisition 167
- Influences of Dependency Distance on the Syntactic Development of Deaf and Hard-ofhearing Students 191
- Positional Aspects of Dependency Distance 213
- Dependency Distance and Direction of English Relative Clauses 239
- Differences between English Subject Postmodifiers and Object Post-modifiers: From the Perspective of Dependency Distance 261
- How Do Universal Dependencies Distinguish Language Groups? 277
- A Quantitative Analysis on a Literary Genre Essay’s Syntactic Features 295
- A Multidimensional Model of Syntactic Dependency Trees for Authorship Attribution 315
- Subject Index 349
- Author Index 357
- List of Contributors 365
