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Statistics on Relative Clauses usage
- From: [email protected] (Nick NICHOLAS)
- Subject: Statistics on Relative Clauses usage
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 94 1:26:23 EDT
I've compiled the following tables based on all Klingon text posted to this
mailing list September to January inclusive(-ish). I will write an article
elucidating them for HolQeD, but thought you might want to see them now.
Count of relative clauses
Speaker Total Full Name
NN 275 Nick Nicholas (nIchyon)
MS 34 Mark Shoulson (~mark)
RY 32 Rich Yampell (HoD Qanqor)
DB 25 David Barron
AS 25 Andrew Strader (Guido)
MW 15 Matthew Whiteacre
MLK 11 Marnen Laibow-Koser (QIchqemwI')
RB 11 Robert Baruch
BD 11 Barbara Dobbelbower (HoD trI'Qal)
AA 9 Anthony Appleyard
WM 9 Will Martin (charghwI')
GT 7 Goren Topic (qoran)
FH 6 Fred Horein (veDHor'ayn)
Others 14
Total 484
AdjTotal 209 (Total minus NN)
Usage of -'e' to disambiguate head of relative clause
Blnk: -'e' would not have disambiguated the head of these clauses (usually,
because there is only one noun in the clause)
UnMkd: -'e' would have disambiguated the head of these clauses, but was not
used.
Mkd: -'e' was used to disambiguate the head of these clauses.
%Marking: In how many clauses (as a percentage), where -'e' could have been
used to disambiguate, was it actually used.
Spkr Blnk UnMkd Mkd Total %Marking
NN 190 12 73 275 86
MS 23 2 9 34 81
RY 22 3 7 32 70
DB 15 4 6 25 60
AS 17 3 5 25 62
MW 12 3 0 15 0
MLK 9 0 2 11 100
RB 5 6 0 11 0
BD 6 2 3 11 60
AA 7 2 0 9 0
WM 9 0 0 9 --
GT 6 1 0 7 0
FH 4 1 1 6 50
Others 9 5 0 14 0
Tot 334 44 106 484 71
69% 9% 22%
AdjTot 144 32 33 209 51 (Total minus NN)
69% 15% 16%
Accessibility: what is the function of the head relative to the relative
clause
S: Subject; O: Direct Object; Gen: Modifier in noun-noun construction;
Loc: unsuffixed locative marker; Tem: unsuffixed temporal marker;
App: Appelation, vocative.
Spkr S O Vad Daq mo' vo' Gen Loc Tem App Tot
AA 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
DB 9 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
WM 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
FH 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
AS 13 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
MLK 8 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
MS 19 13 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 34
NN 168 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 275
RY 20 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
RB 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 11
BD 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
MW 12 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15
GT 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Others 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
Tot 300 180 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 484
62% 37% 0 .5% .2% .2%
AdjTot 132 73 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 209 (Total minus NN)
63% 35% 1% .5% .5%
Clause location: what is the function of the head relative to the main
clause
Spkr S O Vad Daq mo' vo' Gen Loc Tem App Tot
AA 3 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
DB 9 13 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 25
WM 3 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
FH 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
AS 9 8 2 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 25
MLK 1 8 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11
MS 3 23 1 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 34
NN 86 169 4 4 5 0 4 0 0 3 275
RY 10 19 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 32
RB 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 11
BD 2 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11
MW 7 5 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 15
GT 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 7
Others 2 8 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 14
Tot 137 289 11 18 12 2 8 1 1 5 484
28% 60% 2% 4% 2% .4% 1.5% .2% .2% 1%
AdjTot 51 120 7 14 7 2 4 1 1 2 209 (Total minus NN)
24% 57% 3% 7% 3% 1% 2% .5% .5% 1%
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