[Lingtyp] Corpus studies of relativization

[Geoffrey Haig]

There is a corpus-study of relativization in Turkish, indicating 
respective frequencies of different relativized arguments (around 1000 
relative constructions in total).

However, it's based on written language, a mix of journalistic, literary 
and scientific texts.

The details are available in:


Haig, Geoffrey. 1998. Relative constructions in Turkish. Wiesbaden: 
Harrassowitz.

(pdf available if you need it, it's difficult to track down)


best

Geoff


Am 04.06.2018 um 11:44 schrieb David Gil:
>
> There have been corpus studies of relativization in Jakarta Indonesian 
> making use of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 
> Jakarta Field Station corpus.  A link to one reference is provided 
> below.  (There may be other references, but I'm currently with a bad 
> internet connection and am unable to search.)
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244160645_The_Formation_of_Relative_Clauses_in_Jakarta_Indonesian_Data_From_Adults_and_Children
>
>
>
> On 04/06/2018 10:58, Johanna NICHOLS wrote:
>> We are looking for corpus studies of relativization in adult speech 
>> that report frequencies of relativization on different arguments.  
>> There seem to have been few since Fox 1987, most on English (some 
>> references below).  Can anyone refer us to other work?  Especially 
>> needed are languages with gap strategies and languages with 
>> ergativity, but all references appreciated.  We'll summarize.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Johanna Nichols
>> for the Language Convergence Laboratory, Higher School of Economics, 
>> Moscow
>>
>>
>> References:
>>
>> Fox, Barbara.  1987.  The noun phrase accessibility hierarchy 
>> reinterpreted: Subject primary or the absolutive hypothesis?  
>> Language 63:4.856-870.
>> Fox, Barbara, and Sandra A. Thompson.  1990.  A discourse explanation 
>> of the grammar of relative clauses in English conversation. 
>> /Language/ 66:2.297-316.
>> Haspelmath, Martin.  1994.  Passive participles across languages.  
>> Barbara A. Fox and Paul J. Hopper, eds., Voice: Form and function, 
>> 151-178.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.
>> Heider, Paul M., Jeruen E. Dery, and Douglas Roland. 2014.  The 
>> processing of /it/ object relative clauses: Evidence against a 
>> fine-grained frequency account. /Journal of Memory and Language/ 
>> 75.58-76.
>> Mak, Willem M., Wietske Vonk, and Herbert Schriefers. 2002.  The 
>> influence of animacy on relative clause processing. /Journal of 
>> Memory and Language/ 47:50-68.
>> Reali, Florencia, and Morten H. Christensen.  2007. Processing of 
>> relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence. /Journal 
>> of Memory and Language /57:1.1-23.
>> Roland, Douglas, Frederic Dick, and Jeffrey L. Elman. 2007.  
>> Frequency of basic English grammtical structures: A corpus analysis. 
>> /Journal of Memory and Language/ 57:3.348-379.
>>
>>
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