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Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption
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Cognitive Linguistics: The Quantitative Turn
The present paper argues that there is ample corpus evidence of statistical preemption for learners to make use of. In the case of argument structure constructions, a verb i is preempted from appearing in a construction A, CxA, if and only if the following probability is high: P(CxB|context that would be suitable for CxA and verb i ). For example, the probability of hearing a preemptive construction, given a context that would otherwise be well-suited for the ditransitive is high for verbs like
doi:10.1515/9783110335255.57
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