Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013)
This paper discusses a statistical correlation between possessive prenominal placement and the presence of a preposition. The data from mediaeval Russian, Czech, and Croatian are validated against standard statistical measures (chisquare (X2) test and phi (φ) coefficient). Different explanations for...
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Moscow State University of Education
2012-12-01
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| description | This paper discusses a statistical correlation between possessive prenominal placement and the presence of a preposition. The data from mediaeval Russian, Czech, and Croatian are validated against standard statistical measures (chisquare (X2) test and phi (φ) coefficient). Different explanations for the correlation are proposed; the most natural and simple one links the syntactic feature with the phonetic chunking of preposition and adjacent possessive, strengthened by their frequent co-occurence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa1520656caf451bb13dc16c3793097d2022-12-21T18:42:19ZbulMoscow State University of EducationSlovene2304-07852305-67542012-12-0112819425Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013)Philip R. Minlos0Institute for Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MoscowThis paper discusses a statistical correlation between possessive prenominal placement and the presence of a preposition. The data from mediaeval Russian, Czech, and Croatian are validated against standard statistical measures (chisquare (X2) test and phi (φ) coefficient). Different explanations for the correlation are proposed; the most natural and simple one links the syntactic feature with the phonetic chunking of preposition and adjacent possessive, strengthened by their frequent co-occurence.http://slovene.ru/ojs/index.php/slovene/article/view/28syntaxstatistical analysisnoun phraseword orderOld Russian languageOld Czech languageOld Croatian language |
| spellingShingle | Philip R. Minlos Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) Slovene syntax statistical analysis noun phrase word order Old Russian language Old Czech language Old Croatian language |
| title | Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) |
| title_full | Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) |
| title_fullStr | Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) |
| title_short | Word Order in Adjective-Noun Pairs Inside and Outside the Prepositional Phrase: A Contribution to the 15th International Congress of Slavists (Minsk, 2013) |
| title_sort | word order in adjective noun pairs inside and outside the prepositional phrase a contribution to the 15th international congress of slavists minsk 2013 |
| topic | syntax statistical analysis noun phrase word order Old Russian language Old Czech language Old Croatian language |
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