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Predicting the Probability of Tough Construction from the Tough Object's Syntactic Category
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Song, MyoungHyoun | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-21T01:25:11Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-12-21T01:25:11Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language, Vol.8, pp. 28-42 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/21464 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper sets forth the syntactic alternation between the tough construction (TC, e.g. The bear is easy to see.) and the tough-related extraposition construction (EC, e.g. It is easy to see the bear.). The TC-EC alternation shows proportional difference in the overall ratio of TC to EC (4:6). This difference is accounted for by syntactic factors such as Syntactic Category, Modification. The odds ratio of TC to EC in the Syntactic Category was 8.9:1.1 for Pronoun, 4.2:5.8 for DP, 1.4:8.6 for NP, and 0:10 for CP. The odds in the Modification was 6.4 to 3.6 for Head-only, 3.3:6.7 for Premodified, 0:10 for Postmodified. With the Syntactic Category remaining as the only single predictor variable of the probability of the TC, a pronoun tough object is 45.5 times more likely to occur in TC than an NP tough object, 10.5 times than a DP tough object. These findings were obtained by a chi-square test of independence and a logistic regression analysis with 100 tough-related utterances from the spoken texts of on-line corpus COCA. (Seoul National University) | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University | - |
dc.subject | Tough Construction | - |
dc.subject | Extraposition Construction | - |
dc.subject | Syntactic Alternation | - |
dc.subject | Chi-square | - |
dc.subject | logistic regression | - |
dc.title | Predicting the Probability of Tough Construction from the Tough Object's Syntactic Category | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.contributor.AlternativeAuthor | 송명현 | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 42 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 28-42 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 28 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 8 | - |
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