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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| Published in: | Slověne Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 81 - 94 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Bulgarian English |
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Moscow State University of Education
01.12.2012
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| ISSN: | 2304-0785, 2305-6754 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 2304-0785 2305-6754 |
| DOI: | 10.31168/2305-6754.2012.1.2.4 |