freq with modal verbs in Spanish

[Macarena Quiroga]

Dear Brian,
Thank you for your answer. Let me check this with my colleagues, because it’s true that it can be tricky (for example, not all V+V constructions are periphrasis). But maybe we can sort it out, because there are few verbs that can create periphrasis.

Thank you again for your time!

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Macarena Sol Quiroga
Lic. y Prof. en Enseñanza Media y Superior en Letras (UBA)
Instituto de Educación (UNaHur)
CIIPME - CONICET

> On Saturday, Jul 31, 2021 at 10:47 AM, Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu (mailto:macw at andrew.cmu.edu)> wrote:
> Dear Macarena,
> The first question here is whether one can make a nice short list of all Spanish modals. If they arise in V+V constructions, as in "debo salir", this is pretty easy, but when they involve “que” things get trickier linguistically, because I assume you don’t want to throw out all predicate complement constructions. In English, this gets solved a bit by the historical process that is merging “to” with the model as in “hafta” for “have~to”. There is a short list of these in the English MOR
> Based on this analysis, I could modify Spanish MOR. Then I would also need to revise the training set to retrain the POST tagger. I could possibly do this, once it is clear how to count what.
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> — Brian MacWhinney
> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
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> > On Jul 30, 2021, at 8:00 AM, Macarena Quiroga <macarenasolquiroga at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> > I want to run a freq analysis to count verb types and tokens, but I need to exclude those cases when the verb is a part of a periphrasis (for example: "debo salir" o "tengo que salir", which translates to "I must leave" or "I have to leave"). In those cases, I want to count the infinitive as a verb (salir), and don't count the modal verb (debo, tengo que). MOR doesn't seem to recognize modal verbs in Spanish and I wasn't able to create a v-mod.cut file by hand.
> > A colleague suggested I use combo to find verb+verb or verb+preposition combinations, and then modify their respectives mor lines by hand, but I was wondering if you knew a way to automatize this, because it's a very big corpus.
> > Thank you so much for your time.
> >
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> > Lic. y Prof. en Enseñanza Media y Superior en Letras (UBA)
> > Instituto de Educación (UNaHur)
> > CIIPME - CONICET
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