L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit
We study the active/passive alternation in written French to discover preference constraints. We have extracted and annotated a sample of 500 clauses (250 active and 250 passive) of the French Treebank (Abeillé et al., 2019) and modeled them with logistic regression (Baayen, 2008). Short passives (w...
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| description | We study the active/passive alternation in written French to discover preference constraints. We have extracted and annotated a sample of 500 clauses (250 active and 250 passive) of the French Treebank (Abeillé et al., 2019) and modeled them with logistic regression (Baayen, 2008). Short passives (without a par-phrase) are more frequent than long passive (77% of passives are short); in 80% of short passives, the omitted argument is present in the context. We show that argument length and information structure are important factors in active/passive alternation. We also show that the passive construction obeys more general cross-linguistic harmonic argument alignment constraints (Bresnan et al., 2001 and 2007). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9ff522a8756149ab8f863e89d165224c2025-01-30T09:53:08ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232020-12-012710.4000/discours.10956L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écritYanis da CunhaAnne AbeilléWe study the active/passive alternation in written French to discover preference constraints. We have extracted and annotated a sample of 500 clauses (250 active and 250 passive) of the French Treebank (Abeillé et al., 2019) and modeled them with logistic regression (Baayen, 2008). Short passives (without a par-phrase) are more frequent than long passive (77% of passives are short); in 80% of short passives, the omitted argument is present in the context. We show that argument length and information structure are important factors in active/passive alternation. We also show that the passive construction obeys more general cross-linguistic harmonic argument alignment constraints (Bresnan et al., 2001 and 2007).https://journals.openedition.org/discours/10956written corpuspassivepreference constraintsstatistical modeling |
| spellingShingle | Yanis da Cunha Anne Abeillé L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit Discours written corpus passive preference constraints statistical modeling |
| title | L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit |
| title_full | L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit |
| title_fullStr | L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit |
| title_full_unstemmed | L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit |
| title_short | L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit |
| title_sort | l alternance actif passif en francais une etude statistique sur corpus ecrit |
| topic | written corpus passive preference constraints statistical modeling |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/discours/10956 |
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