Nam, Christopher F. H., Mukherjee, Sach, Schilk, Marco and Mukherjee, Joybrato (2012) Statistical analysis of varieties of English. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society : Series A (Statistics in Society), Volume 176 (Number 3). pp. 777-793. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01062.x ISSN 0964-1998.
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Abstract
Linguistic corpora are databases of text which are linguistically marked up or otherwise structured and designed to be representative of a specific language. The growing availability of such corpora has brought with it opportunities for statistical analysis. The paper develops and uses statistical approaches to address questions pertaining to an important linguistic phenomenon: the use of different syntactic alternatives. We present a model-selection-based approach for determining possible driving attributes affecting verb complementation for written sentence constructions using the verb ‘give’ in three varieties of English. We are interested in explaining the choice of alternatives in terms of a variety of sentence level linguistic features such as the meaning of the verb, in addition to the country of origin.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Statistics |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society : Series A (Statistics in Society) |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0964-1998 |
| Official Date: | 2012 |
| Dates: | Date Event 2012 Published |
| Volume: | Volume 176 |
| Number: | Number 3 |
| Page Range: | pp. 777-793 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01062.x |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56894/ |
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