Affiliation:
1. University of California, Santa Barbara
2. Universidad de Caracas
Abstract
This article uses the quantitative methodology of GoldVarb to examine the variable distribution of lexical noun phrases representing core arguments of the verb in a corpus of spoken French and a corpus of spoken Spanish. It is shown that this distribution is not random, but instead conforms to a grammatically and pragmatically motivated pattern known as Preferred Argument Structure.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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