verbs {languageR}

Dative Alternation - simplified data set

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)