Chinese Syntactic and Typological Properties Based on Dependency Syntactic Treebanks

• Autorzy: Haitao Liu , Yiyi Zhao , Wenwen Li
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper offers a quantitative analysis of the syntactic and typological properties of Chinese based on five Chinese dependency treebanks. The study shows that mean dependency distance of Chinese is 2.84; 40-50% dependencies are between non-adjacent words; Chinese is a mixed language with a governor-final and SV-VO-AdjN preference; the mean dependency distance of governor-initial dependencies is greater than that of governor-final ones. Methodologically, the paper adopts five treebanks with different text genres and annotation schemes as a resource to study syntactic features of a language. This method avoids corpus influences on results so that the conclusions can be more reliable and robust. If suitable treebanks are available, it will be an easy task to apply our method to other languages. In this way, the method has a broad theoretical and cross-linguistic perspective.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Chinese; dependency distance; dependency direction; dependency treebank; linguistic typology

• Wydawca: De Gruyter
• Czasopismo: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Rocznik: 2009
• Tom: 45
• Numer: 4
• Strony: 509-523

Daty

wydano

2009-12-01

online

2010-01-13

Twórcy

autor

Haitao Liu

• Communication University of China

autor

Yiyi Zhao

• Communication University of China

autor

Wenwen Li

• Communication University of China

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DOI

10.2478/v10010-009-0025-3