Transcript CRYPTOTYPE

ENGLISH NOUN CRYPTOTYPE
MODELING PARAMETERS
Olga O.Boriskina
Voronezh State University
Russia
Noun Cryptotype
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Is covert (VS. overt) linguistic category (B.L.Whorf);
Is NOT morphologically marked in discourse;
Is NOT homogeneous semantic-wise or thematicwise;
Is identified thanks to the Verb aptitude to act as a
Noun classifier;
Is organized on two basic principals: the modeling
power of the Cryptotype Core nouns; and the ability
of the Cryptotype Periphery nouns to imitate the
Core nouns cognitive nature, that is, to borrow the
Cryptotype Core nouns classifiers and thus to
adapt to their combinatory characteristics.
CRYPTOTYPE “HAND-HELD OBJECT”
SIMULATION
Noun Cryptotype Analysis
a series of techniques aiming at
nouns distribution
within-Cryptotype & inter-Cryptotype
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100 abstract nouns of very high frequency
39794 contexts from Corpus of American English
and British National Corpus
http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/
47 verbal classifiers with the CORE meaning “ to
hold in hands to manipulate” : to grasp, to grab, to
grip, to catch, to snatch, to press, to squeeze, to get,
to compress, to gain, to obtain, to hold, to receive
NB. Verbs and Adjectives act as noun Classifiers
Corpus excerpts
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Dorian Gray’s beautiful face will perhaps bring him
danger and trouble
It is the DNA, and the DNA alone, that carries the
genetic information …
we prefer to keep peace on the streets
It was wicked of her to take all the love without
paying for it.
They are also given power to vote on fundamental
structural changes to the company, such as altering
the memorandum
The city holds out the hope of a better education
for the migrants' children
Table in MS Excel
Dominant Classifiers of
CRYPTOTYPE “HAND-HELD OBJECT”
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to get combines with 98 out of 100 nouns.
to bring takes 97 / 100.
to make takes 95 / 100.
to take takes 95 / 100.
to give takes 94 / 100.
to put takes 94 / 100.
to keep takes 81 / 100.
to hold takes 80 / 100.
Discourse frequency
of Cryptotype-bound noun occurrence
the Quantity of contexts where a noun has realized its
Cryptotype Intention to fill in the O-position of a certain
Cryptotype classifier corresponds to the noun
Combinatory Selectivity
to give information (1073), to collect information (283),
to gather information (249),to get information (472),
to obtain information (412),to receive information (302)
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the word combinations with degree of Combinatory Selectivity > 200 are
called collocations in Lexicography
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the Cryptotype activity of noun information is
represented in variable 3870
RADIUS INDEX of Cryptotype “hand-held
object” PERIPHERY NOUNS
Advantages and perspectives of
Cryptotype Taxonomy reconstruction
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Cognitive and communicative background of Cryptotype
The properties of nouns in a Cryptotype are grounded on the
quantitative analysis of Corpus
The output of the Noun Cryptotype Analysis, represented in MS
Excel, can be further used for a word combinatory simulation
purposes
The computational perspective of the EL Noun Cryptotype
Taxonomy reconstruction may enable the researcher
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to implement a computational model of cryptotype-bound word
combinations of the English language.
to model the nouns dynamic combinatory profiles including the
realization degree of nouns combinatory potential
to endeavour Noun Cryptotype Combinatory Matrix, which is
supposed to be relevant to the demands of text processing