Distributional semantics insights on agentive suffix rivalry in French

IF 0.7 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Word Structure Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.3366/word.2021.0194
R. Huyghe, Marine Wauquier
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The formation of French agent nouns (ANs) involves a large variety of morphological constructions, and particularly of suffixes. In this study, we focus on the semantic counterpart of agentive suffix diversity and investigate whether the morphological variety of ANs correlates with different agentive subtypes. We adopt a distributional semantics approach and combine manual, computational and statistical analyses applied to French ANs ending in -aire, -ant, -eur, -ien, -ier and -iste. Our methodology allows for a large-scale study of ANs and involves both top-down and bottom-up procedures. We first characterize agentive suffixes with respect to their morphosemantic and distributional properties, outlining their specificities and similarities. Then we automatically cluster ANs into distributionally relevant subsets and examine their properties. Based on quantitative analysis, our study provides a new perspective on agentive suffix rivalry in French that both confirms existing claims and sheds light on previously unseen phenomena.
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法语中代理后缀竞争的分布语义分析
法语代理名词(ANs)的形成涉及各种各样的形态结构,特别是后缀。在本研究中,我们关注代理词缀多样性的语义对应物,并探讨ANs的形态变化是否与不同的代理亚型相关。我们采用了一种分布式语义方法,并将人工、计算和统计分析结合起来,应用于以-aire、-ant、-eur、-ien、-ier和-iste结尾的法语ANs。我们的方法允许对ANs进行大规模研究,并涉及自上而下和自下而上的程序。我们首先从词形语义和分布特性方面描述代理后缀,概述它们的特殊性和相似性。然后,我们自动将网络聚类到分布相关的子集中,并检查它们的属性。基于定量分析,我们的研究为法语代理后缀竞争提供了一个新的视角,既证实了现有的主张,又揭示了以前未见过的现象。
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