The cooccurrence of linguistic structures

Description

The study of cooccurrences, i. e. the analysis of linguistic units that occur together, has had a profound impact on our view of language. Not only has it contributed greatly to the insight that semi-preconstructed phrases and item-specific knowledge are central to how language works, but it has also led to improved dictionaries and teaching materials. Cooccurrences of various linguistic items have been studied under a variety of names, e. g. collocation, colligation or collostruction. While there are well-understood and fully worked out statistical models for the analysis of cooccurrences of pairs of words, no such model exists for cooccurrences of larger linguistic structures. This situation is remedied by the current work.

Aufbauend auf den etablierten Vierfeldertafeln und einer graphbasierten Repräsentation sprachlicher Strukturen wird das verallgemeinerte Kookkurrenzmodell entwickelt, ein explizites formales Modell für die statistische Analyse von Kookkurrenzen beliebiger sprachlicher Strukturen. Es wird gezeigt, dass existierende Methoden zur Analyse von Zweiwortkookkurrenzen und zur Kollostruktionsanalyse lediglich Spezialfälle des verallgemeinerten Kookkurrenzmodells sind.