At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will be presenting Do aspectual classes show up in corpus distribution patterns?.

When:
Wednesday, March 19, 10:00–11:00 (Montréal time, UTC-5)
Where:
MCQLL meetings this semester are in hybrid format. We will meet in-person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics Department, 1085 Dr-Penfield. If you’d like to attend virtually, the Zoom link is here.

All are welcome to attend.

  • Speaker:
    Laurestine Bradford
    Title:
    Do aspectual classes show up in corpus distribution patterns?
    Abstract:

    Verbs fall into distinct aspectual classes, as supported by a wide array of linguistic judgment tests. I expect strong grammaticality and felicity judgments to be correlated with widespread tendencies in usage which will be discoverable from a corpus. I present my plans to investigate whether the empirical distribution of verbs in an English corpus reflects their aspectual classification, or something else related. I will describe the broad patterns in my corpus data and the modeling approaches that I hope will bring to light additional patterns.