auxiliaries: Auxiliaries for regular and irregular verbs in Dutch

Description Usage Format References Examples

Description

For 285 regular and irregular Dutch verbs, the auxiliary for the present and past perfect is listed together with the count of verbal synsets in WordNet. Regular and irregular verbs are matched in the mean for lemma frequency.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 285 observations on the following 4 variables.

Verb

a factor with 285 monomorphemic Dutch verbs.

Aux

a factor with as levels the auxiliaries hebben, zijn and zijnheb (for verbs allowing both auxiliaries).

VerbalSynsets

a numeric vector witth the number of verbal synonym sets in WordNet in which the verb is listed.

Regularity

a factor with levels irregular and regular.

References

Baayen, R. H. and Moscoso del Prado Martin, F. (2005) Semantic density and past-tense formation in three Germanic languages, Language, 81, 666-698.

Examples

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Example output

	Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test

data:  auxiliaries$VerbalSynsets and auxiliaries$Aux
Kruskal-Wallis chi-squared = 11.721, df = 2, p-value = 0.00285

languageR documentation built on May 2, 2019, 10:02 a.m.