BibTeX
@article{varvara:_groun_seman_trans_in_contex,
abstract = { We present the results of a large-scale corpus-based comparison of
two German event nominalization patterns: deverbal nouns in
-ung (e.g., die Evaluierung, 'the evaluation')
and nominal infinitives (e.g., das Evaluieren, 'the
evaluating'). Among the many available event nominalization
patterns for German, we selected these two because they are both
highly productive and challenging from the semantic point of view.
Both patterns are known to keep a tight relation with the event
denoted by the base verb, but with different nuances. Our study
targets a better understanding of the differences in their semantic
import.
The key notion of our comparison is that of semantic transparency,
and we propose a usage-based characterization of the relationship
between derived nominals and their bases. Using methods from
distributional semantics, we bring to bear two concrete measures of
transparency which highlight different nuances: the first one,
cosine, detects nominalizations which are semantically
similar to their bases; the second one, distributional
inclusion, detects nominalizations which are used in a subset of
the contexts of the base verb. We find that the inclusion measure
helps in characterizing the difference between the two types of
nominalizations, in relation with the traditionally considered
variable of relative frequency (Hay, 2001). We further benefit from
our distributional analysis to frame our comparison in the broader
coordinates of the inflection vs. derivation cline.},
added-at = {2021-04-22T09:47:08.000+0200},
author = {Varvara, Rossella and Lapesa, Gabriella and Padó, Sebastian},
biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2710319e2b7cd0a488842da3889289927/sp},
interhash = {3cb922fdbc49dea0b6529ec82e7a0133},
intrahash = {710319e2b7cd0a488842da3889289927},
journal = {Morphology},
keywords = {article myown},
pages = {409-446},
timestamp = {2021-10-25T09:36:36.000+0200},
title = {Grounding Semantic Transparency In Context: A Distributional Semantic Study on {G}erman Event Nominalizations},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-021-09382-w},
volume = 31,
year = 2021
}