languageR (version 1.0)

dative: Dative Alternation

Description

Data describing the realization of the dative as NP or PP in the Switchboard corpus and the Treebank Wall Street Journal collection.

Usage

data(dative)

References

Bresnan, J., Cueni, A., Nikitina, T. and Baayen, R. H. (2007) Predicting the dative alternation, in Bouma, G. and Kraemer, I. and Zwarts, J. (eds.), Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 33 pages, in press.

Examples

data(dative)

# analysis with CART tree

library(rpart)

# ---- initial tree

dative.rp = rpart(RealizationOfRecipient ~ ., 
 data = dative[ ,-c(1, 3)]) # exclude the columns with subjects, verbs
plot(dative.rp, compress = TRUE, branch = 1, margin = 0.1)
text(dative.rp, use.n = TRUE, pretty = 0)

# ---- pruning the initial tree

plotcp(dative.rp)
dative.rp1 = prune(dative.rp, cp = 0.041)
plot(dative.rp1, compress = TRUE, branch = 1, margin = 0.1)
text(dative.rp1, use.n = TRUE, pretty = 0)


# analysis with logistic regression

# ---- logistic regression with the Design package

library(Design)
dative.dd = datadist(dative)
options(datadist = 'dative.dd')
dative.lrm = lrm(RealizationOfRecipient ~ 
  AccessOfTheme + AccessOfRec + LengthOfRecipient + AnimacyOfRec +
  AnimacyOfTheme + PronomOfTheme + DefinOfTheme + LengthOfTheme+
  SemanticClass + Modality, data = dative)
anova(dative.lrm)
par(mfrow = c(4,3))
plot(dative.lrm)
par(mfrow = c(1,1))

# ---- mixed-effects logistic regression with the lme4 package

library(lme4) 

dative.lmer = lmer(RealizationOfRecipient ~ AccessOfTheme +
AccessOfRec + LengthOfRecipient + AnimacyOfRec + 
AnimacyOfTheme + PronomOfTheme + DefinOfTheme + LengthOfTheme + 
SemanticClass + Modality + (1|Verb), 
data = dative, family = "binomial") 

print(dative.lmer, corr=FALSE)