auxiliaries {languageR}

Auxiliaries for regular and irregular verbs in Dutch

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

data(auxiliaries)

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

data(auxiliaries)
kruskal.test(auxiliaries$VerbalSynsets, auxiliaries$Aux)