verbs: Dative Alternation - simplified data set

In languageR: Analyzing Linguistic Data: A Practical Introduction to Statistics

Description

A simplified version of the dative data set, used for expository purposes only.

Usage

data(verbs)

Format

A data frame with 903 observations on the following 5 variables.

RealizationOfRec

a factor with levels NP and PP.

Verb

a factor with the verbs as levels.

AnimacyOfRec

a factor with levels animate and inanimate.

AnimacyOfTheme

a factor with levels animate and inanimate.

LengthOfTheme

a numeric vector coding the length in words of the theme.

References

Bresnan, J., Cueni, A., Nikitina, T. and Baayen, R. H. (2007) Predicting the dative alternation, in Bouma, G. and Kraemer, I. and Zwarts, J. (eds.), Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 33 pages, in press.

Examples

data(verbs)
head(verbs)
xtabs( ~ RealizationOfRec + AnimacyOfRec, data = verbs)
barplot(xtabs( ~ RealizationOfRec + AnimacyOfRec, data = verbs),beside=TRUE)

Example output

  RealizationOfRec  Verb AnimacyOfRec AnimacyOfTheme LengthOfTheme
1               NP  feed      animate      inanimate      2.639057
2               NP  give      animate      inanimate      1.098612
3               NP  give      animate      inanimate      2.564949
4               NP  give      animate      inanimate      1.609438
5               NP offer      animate      inanimate      1.098612
6               NP  give      animate      inanimate      1.386294
                AnimacyOfRec
RealizationOfRec animate inanimate
              NP     521        34
              PP     301        47

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