Syntactic Differences of Nouns in Mongolian-English Code-Switching
Utilizing the dependency treebank of Mongolian-English code-switching,this study delves into the intricate syntactic variations of nouns by employing dependency distance as a key measure-ment metric and applying Word Grammar.The primary objective is to uncover the syntactic characteristics of nouns within this treebank.The research findings highlight that Mongolian nouns and English nouns,when functioning as head words,primarily exhibit subject(SUBJ)and attribute(ATT)relationships,whereas as dependent words,they predominantly display subject(SUBJ),attribute(ATT)and direct ob-ject(DOBJ)relations.Furthermore,discrepancies in dependency distances are observed in the subject(SUBJ),attribute(ATT)and direct object(DOBJ)relations established by Mongolian and English nouns as head or dependent words within monolingual and mixed dependencies.These variations stem from the divergent positions of modifiers and predicates in Mongolian and English,as well as the holistic involve-ment of noun phrases in the process of code-switching.
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