[Corpora-List] corpora and minimalism: summary

Wed Apr 2 07:33:05 UTC 2008

Dear corpora-lists,

A while ago, I asked for bibliographical pointers to corpus-based
research within the minimalist/recent-Chomskyan framework.

I paste below the replies I got (most references, as pointed out by
the message posters, are rather from a broad "generative" paradigm
than strictly minimalist/cartographic, etc.)

Thanks again to those who replied.

Regards,

Marco

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Rita Calabrese:

Dear Marco,
here are some titles concerning corpus-based studies in a generative
framework (note that these studies are concerned with SLA research):

R. Calabrese-N. Gagliardi, Transfer linguistico e Grammatica Universale.
Interlingue a confronto (con Nicoletta Gagliardi), in N. Gagliardi (a cura
di), Didattiche Multimediali per l’Insegnamento del Tedesco, Mephite,
Avellino, 2005.
R. Calabrese, The Lexicon-Syntax Interface in the Acquisition of
English as
a Foreign Language. A corpus-based analysis, in Atti del VI Congresso
Internazionale AItLA,Perugia: Guerra Edizioni, 2007.
R. Calabrese, Insights into the Lexicon-Syntax Interface in Italian
Learners’ English. A Generative Framework for a Corpus-Based Analysis.
(PhD
thesis submitted for publication)
Best wishes
Rita

P.S. Sorry for self-referencing :-I

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Antti Arppe:

Marco,

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, corpora-request at uib.no wrote:
> > From: Marco Baroni <marco.baroni_AT_unitn.it>
> > Subject: [Corpora-List] bibliographic request: corpora in 
"mainstream"
> >
> > Is anybody on the list aware of studies that used corpus-based
> > evidence while adopting, as theoretical framework, what I will call,
> > for lack of a better name, the "mainstream Chomskyan tradition"
> > (Chomsky's minimalism, Cinque's cartographic approoach, etc.)?

Well, if you understand generativism in general as Chomskyan, maybe
some of the studies presented in the proceedings of the Int'l
Conference on Linguistic Evidence might be what you're looking for (as
its published in the Studies in Generative Grammar series). In my
mind, at least Sam Featherston's study explicitly compares
corpus-based evidence with judgemental data (of which experimental
judgment data would appear to be his method of choice), and my
understanding is that he identifies with generativism. Some of the
other studies in the same volume may also fit your requirements.

Kepser, Stephan and Marga Reis (Editors). 2005. Linguistic Evidence.
Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives. Studies in
Generative Grammar 85. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York,
Germany/United States.

Featherston, Sam. 2005. The Decathlon Model. In Kepser and Reis 2005,
pp. 187-208.

I Hope this is of some assistance, -Antti

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Heike Zinsmeister

Hello Marco,

a late reply to your request. I'm also interested in this kind of research
and recently collected a list of references. Actually, not all of the
papers
deal with generative grammar in the strict sense, but I hope it is helpful
to you nevertheless.

Are you going to post a summary?

Best,
Heike

  References

Bader, Markus and Jana Häussler, Submitted. A corpus study of determinants
of word order in German.

Bosch, Peter, Graham Katz and Carla Umbach. 2007. The non-subject bias of
German demonstrative pronouns. In Monika Schwarz-Friesel, Manfred Consten,
and Mareile Knees, editors, Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, Formal and
Applied
Approaches to Anaphoric Reference. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pages
145–64.

  Bouma, Gerlof. 2008. Starting a Sentence in Dutch: A corpus study of
subject- and object fronting. Doctoral Dissertation, University of
Groningen.

Bouma, Gosse. 2004. Treebank evidence for the analysis of PP-fronting. In
Sandra Kübler, Joakim Nivre, Erhard Hinrichs and Holger Wunsch (eds),
Third
Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, pages 15–26.

  Bresnan, Joan. 2006. Is knowledge of syntax probabilistic?
Experiments with
the English dative alternation. Invited Talk. In proceedings of Linguistic
Evidence 2006.

Bresnan, Joan, Anna Cueni, Tatiana Nikitina and Harald Baayen. 2007.
Predicting the dative alternation. In Gerlof Bouma, Irenen Krämer, and
Joost
Zwarts (eds), Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Amsterdam.
Edita/KNAW.

Fanselow, Gisbert. 2000. Does constituent length predict German word order
in the Middle Field? In J. Bayer and C. Römer (eds), Von der
Philologie zur
Grammatiktheorie. Peter Suchsland zum 65. Geburtstag. Niemeyer, Tübingen,
pages 63–78.

*Hockenmaier, Julia and Mark Steedman. 2007. CCGbank: A Corpus of CCG
Derivations and Dependency Structures Extracted from the Penn Treebank. In
Computational Linguistics, 33(3) 355-396**.*

Karlsson, Fred. In preparation. Early generative linguists. In HSK Corpus
Linguistics.

Kurz, Daniela. 2000. A statistical account on word order variation in
German. In Proceedings of the COLING Workshop on Linguistically
Interpreted
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Manning, Christopher. 2003. Probabilistic Syntax. In R. Bod, J. Hay
and St.
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Meurers, Detmar and Stefan Müller. In preparation. Corpora and Syntax. In
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Meurers, Detmar. 2005. On the use of electronic corpora for theoretical
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Müller, Stefan. 2005. Zur Analyse der scheinbar mehrfachen
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Pappert, Sandra, Johannes Schliesser, Dirk P. Janssen and Thomas Pechmann.
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Pereira, Fernando (2000) Formal grammar and information theory: Together
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Rosenbach, Anette. 2005. Animacy versus weight variation in English.
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Snider, Neal and Annie Zaenen. 2006. Animacy and syntactic structure:
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Speyer, Augustin. 2005. Competing Constraints on Vorfeldbesetzung in
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Stefanowitsch, Alexander. 2005. New York, Dayton (Ohio), and the raw
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Weber, Andrea and Karin Müller. 2004. Word order variation in Germain main
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Marco Baroni
CIMeC, University of Trento
http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/marco

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