Proisl T (2022)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2022
The aim of collostructional analysis or, more precisely, simple collexeme analysis, is to quantify the statistical association between a construction c and a lexeme l that occurs in a particular slot of the construction. The analysis is based on 2x2 contingency tables that ought to represent a cross-classification of the units of analysis. So far, the units of analysis have been identified either as all constructions in the corpus or all instances of a class C of constructions to which construction c belongs. In practice, it is often not possible or feasible to identify these constructions. Therefore, the sample size is typically approximated by heuristic estimates. The bottom-right cell of the contingency table is most affected by these approximations. I suggest that the units of analysis be defined on the word level, instead, as the class W of word forms that satisfy the restrictions on the collexeme slot of c.
APA:
Proisl, T. (2022). Use words, not constructions! A new perspective on the unit of analysis in collostructional analysis. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.20072.pro
MLA:
Proisl, Thomas. "Use words, not constructions! A new perspective on the unit of analysis in collostructional analysis." International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (2022).
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