Distribution-based Prediction of the Degree of Grammaticalization for German Prepositions
classification
💻 cs.CL
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correlationdegreeentropygermangrammaticalizationprepositionscontextcontextual
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We test the hypothesis that the degree of grammaticalization of German prepositions correlates with their corpus-based contextual dispersion measured by word entropy. We find that there is indeed a moderate correlation for entropy, but a stronger correlation for frequency and number of context types.
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