Negentropy of Dependency Types and Parts of Speech in the Clause
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Haruko Sanada
Abstract
As one of our studies of the quantitative aspects of Japanese valency, in this paper we focus on the amount of information in the clause. The possibility of choosing a word in the clause generally decreases as the position of the word moves from left to right. We studied the negentropy of dependency types (subject, object, time, place, predicate, and others) and of parts of speech in Japanese clauses. The results were compared to Köhler’s study (2012). The negentropy of the parts of speech decreased more rapidly than that of the dependency types. We also found that there are combinations of dependency types with relatively strong connections such as time and place or a direct object and a predicate, and concluded that the occurrence of some dependency types does not depend on the absolute position in the clause, but on the relative position to other dependency types.
Abstract
As one of our studies of the quantitative aspects of Japanese valency, in this paper we focus on the amount of information in the clause. The possibility of choosing a word in the clause generally decreases as the position of the word moves from left to right. We studied the negentropy of dependency types (subject, object, time, place, predicate, and others) and of parts of speech in Japanese clauses. The results were compared to Köhler’s study (2012). The negentropy of the parts of speech decreased more rapidly than that of the dependency types. We also found that there are combinations of dependency types with relatively strong connections such as time and place or a direct object and a predicate, and concluded that the occurrence of some dependency types does not depend on the absolute position in the clause, but on the relative position to other dependency types.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
