FUSE {MoLE} | R Documentation |
Fuse words
Description
Fuses lexical items with frequently co-occuring markers into new lexical items
Usage
FUSE(agent)
Arguments
agent |
Agent whose lexical items are considered for fusion. |
Details
Words are only fused if the combination is used frequently enough (cf. world
) and if meaning and form result of fusion is not in the lexicon already. Meaning of lexical item is overwritten for those meaning dimensions for which marker is specified only. Semantics of host is mixed with that of marker.
Value
No actual output: agent with updated lexicon
Author(s)
Sander Lestrade
References
Bybee, J. (2010). Language, usage and cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Bybee, J. L. (1985). Morphology. a study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
See Also
SEMUPDATE
Examples
FOUND()
agent=population[[1]]
agent$collostructions$flag[1,]$N=agent$nouns$ID[nrow(agent$nouns)-1]
agent$collostructions$flag[1,]$marker=agent$nouns$ID[nrow(agent$nouns)]
agent$collostructions$flag[1,]$frequency=100
agent$nouns[nrow(agent$nouns),]$nounMarker=100
agent$nouns[nrow(agent$nouns)-1,]$person=1
agent$nouns[nrow(agent$nouns),6:9]=NA
agent$collostructions$flag
tail(agent$nouns)
agent=FUSE(agent)
agent$collostructions$flag
tail(agent$nouns)
[Package MoLE version 1.0.1 Index]