[Lingtyp] Corpus studies of relativization

[Kilu von Prince]

Dear Johanna,

for my master's thesis I did not analyse absolute frequencies but I do
report qualitative findings from my corpus studies on Hindi, Swahili
and Mandarin Chinese and comment on more and less frequent patterns. I
hope this is helpful.

Best,
Kilu

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 12:53 PM, Maria Polinsky <mpolinsk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> here are some studies we have done:
>
> On Avar:
>
> Polinsky, M; Gomez-Gallo, C; Graff, P; and Kravtchenko, E. 2012. Subject
> preference and ergativity. Lingua. 122: 267-277
>
> On Mayan:
>
> Clemens, LE; Coon, J; Mateo, Pedro P; Morgan, AM; Polinsky, M; Tandet, G;
> and Wagers M. 2015. Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: A view from
> Mayan. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33: 417-467.
>
> General discussion:
> Longenbaugh, N and Polinsky, M. 2017. Experimental approaches to ergative
> languages.  In: The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity (eds. Jessica Coon, Diane
> Massam, and Lisa Travis). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
>
> One of these papers also reports the counts for Basque from Carreiras et al.
> (2010).
>
> Maria Polinsky
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Johanna NICHOLS <johanna at berkeley.edu>
> 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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Dr. Kilu von Prince

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
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