Quantitative contribution to the study of the syntax of spoken vs. written language
Résumé
In French, attributive adjectives (A) can appear both before or after the noun (N):
(1) a. une agréable soirée (anteposed)
b. une soirée agréable (postposed)
`a nice evening'
Except the presence of a post-adjectival dependent that imposes the postposition of the AP (2), this phenomenon is led by various factors interacting in a complex way and favoring one position over the other.
(2) a. une musique agréable à écouter
b. *une agréable à écouter musique
``a music nice to hear''
The aim of this paper is twofold: to model this alternation phenomenon and compare the difference between the syntax of spoken French (SF) and written French (WF) on the basis of this alternation phenomenon. The methodology is inspired by the work by Bresnan et al. (2007) and Bresnan and Ford (2010) on dative alternation in English. Using statistical modeling on data extracted from written and spoken corpora, we test syntactic factors found in the literature (Abeillé and Godard, 1999; Wilmet, 1981; Forsgren, 1978; Blinkenberg, 1933 a. o.).
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