Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions

By Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Gries. 2003

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Computational Linguistics & Semantics, Philosophy

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The ROOTS Search Tool: Data Transparency for LLMs (2023, methodology): “Corpus linguistics developed sophisticated methodologies including concordances, word sketches and various word association measures (Stefanowitsch and Gries, 2003; Baker, 2004; Kilgarriff, 2014, among others).”
Does frequency in text instantiate entrenchment in the cognitive system (2010, background): “However, these measures were so technical that even linguists who had applied them with some success admitted they were not able to see behind the formulas and to interpret the actual linguistic significance (cf. also Stubbs 1995 for a critical discussion).”
The processing of verb-argument constructions is sensitive to form, function, frequency, contingency and prototypicality (2014, methodology): “…1980) that is commonly used in the associative learning literature (Shanks 1995), as well as collostructional analysis measures current in corpus linguistics (Gries and Stefanowitsch 2004; Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003), both predicted effects of form-function contingency upon L2 VAC acquisition.”
Change in modal meanings: Another look at the shifting collocates of may (2016, methodology): “Collocational profiles of this kind can be determined through collostructional analysis (Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003), which operates on the basis of frequency counts of constructions and the lexical elements that occur within them.”
Converging evidence: Bringing together experimental and corpus data on the association of verbs and constructions (2005, methodology): “The adequacy of using the Fisher-Yates Exact test for collostructional analysis has been justified in detail elsewhere (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003; Gries and Stefanowitsch 2004a).”
Statistical Measures for Usage‐Based Linguistics (2015, background): “In one of the first studies, Stefanowitsch and Gries (2003) showed how the verbs that are most strongly attracted to constructions are precisely those that convey the central senses of the (often polysemous) constructions.”
Psycholinguistic and corpus-linguistic evidence for L2 constructions (2009, methodology): “Lexemes that are significantly associated with a construction are referred to as collexemes of that construction, where the association is quantified by means of the log to the base of 10 of the pvalue of the Fisher Yates exact test (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries, 2003, pp. 217–8 for justification).”
Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage. (2009, methodology): “…the association strength between the verbs and the VACs in which they occur, they used collexeme strength (the log to the base 10 of the p-value of the Fisher-Yates exact test), a measure of contingency from collostructional analysis (Gries & Stefanowitsch, 2004; Stefanowitsch & Gries, 2003).”
Assessing syntactic sophistication in L2 writing: A usage-based approach (2017, methodology): “Unlike faith and delta P, collostructional analysis (Gries et al., 2005; Stefanowitsch & Gries, 2003) calculates the joint probability (i.e., it is not directional, unlike delta P) that two corpus items will co-occur.”
The acquisition of tense-aspect: Converging evidence from corpora and telicity ratings (2009, methodology): “2 Lexemes that are significantly associated with a construction are referred to as collexemes of that construction, where the association is quantified by means of the log to the base 10 of the p-value of the Fisher–Yates exact test (cf. Stefanowitsch & Gries, 2003, for justification).”