Working with codes

[bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de]

Dear all, 

For a study on anaphora, we are coding referring expressions in
children's narratives and I have some questions concerning the coding
line (we use %cod), as well as subsequent CLAN analyses. 

First, is such a %cod line legal?
*CHI:	der hund beisst sie in den schwanz.
%cod:	der hund|S-DA:N-BL-V1:3-AS-DIR-hundC sie|O-PRO:PP-BL-V3:1-AS-DIS-
katzeC den schwanz|NSO-DA:N-UBL-NV-IND-schwanzC 

We use the minus symbol - for separating 7 levels of coding of each
referring expression, e.g., syntactic position, lexical realisation,
in/animacy, referent introduction vs. reference maintenance, etc. The
symbol : is used for separating sub-levels within each of the 7
superordinated levels. 

Secondly, is there any possibility to link each referring expression
on the *CHI line with its coding on the %cod line? Provisionally, we
opted for typing the referring expression before the coding string,
e.g., 'die katze'. 

Thidly and most importantly, we want to conduct analyses concerning
the cooccurrence of elements within each coding string. For instance,
we want to investigate differences in children's realisation of
referents as a function of referent introduction vs. anaphorical
expression (reference maintenance). For that, we want to find a range
of cooccurrences as the following: 

DA:N and NV and IND
(where DA:N means definite article + noun, NV means referent
introduction, and IND means indirect anaphor) 

I have tried COMB, but either I don't understand the principle for the
syntax of the command line or I miss some important switch or, well, I
don't know what. 

Two things are in such searching procedures very important for us:
 - The search must be limited to each of the coding strings and not be
based on the whole %cod line. For instanance, when looking for the
cooccurrence  DA:N and DIS, CLAN would be supposed not to find it in
the example above, since it doesn't occur in any of the 3 coding
strings. That is, for this concrete example, how can we proceed for
ensuring that CLAN ignores the cooccurrence of DA:N for 'the hund' and
DIS for 'sie'?
 - How can we proceed to get quantitative results of such searches? I
mean, in addition to the concrete hits showed in the output window,
it'd be very important to have the number of cooccurrences found in
each chat file, as well as in all chat files in which the cooccurrence
was looked for. 

I apologize if the answers for my questions are obvious or easy to be
found  in the CLAN manual. I have read the manual very carefully
before sending this query, but I don't seem to be able to find the
needed answers therein. 

Many, many thanks in advance for any hint. 

Kind regards,
Susanna 

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Susanna Bartsch
https://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/bartsch/
bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS)
Centre for General Linguistics
Schuetzenstr. 18
10117 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)30 20 192 503
Fax  +49 (0)30 20 192 402
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