Interjections in Dutch: a corpus-based approach

نویسندگان

  • Carla Schelfhout
  • Peter-Arno Coppen
  • Nelleke Oostdijk
  • Frans van der Slik
چکیده

In this paper, the distribution of interjections over the clause is studied within the context of a topological framework. For this study authentic data were extracted from a corpus comprising one million words of written material and 174,000 words of spoken material. To explain this distribution we study the influence of the text type in which an interjection is found, the length of the interjection and its function. All three factors are shown to play a role. This confirms and amplifies hypotheses that hitherto had gone untested. Samenvatting Dit artikel bestudeert de distributie van interjecties over de zin in termen van een topologisch model. Hierbij wordt gebruik gemaakt van authentieke data, die voorkwamen in een corpus van één miljoen woorden geschreven materiaal en 174.000 woorden gesproken materiaal. Om deze distributie te verklaren, bestuderen we de invloed van het teksttype waarin de interjectie voorkomt, de lengte van de interjectie en de functie van interjecties. Alle drie factoren blijken een rol te spelen. Deze resultaten vormen een bevestiging van en aanvulling op totnogtoe onbewezen hypotheses.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005