Diminutive-Suffix-Productivity

• Juan Berríos | [email protected] | Last updated: October 26, 2022

• Project summary:

  • Welcome! This is the repository for a linguistics project on morphological productivity. The purpose of the project is to do a cross-dialectal analysis of two competing Spanish diminutive suffixes (-ito, -illo) in terms of productivity (i.e., the extent to which a morphological pattern can be applied to new bases and form new words). In order to quantify productivity, I use statistical measures (e.g., Baayen's P), which can provide empirical grounding to descriptive claims made in the literature about the prevalence of each suffix. Lastly, this analysis also considers dialectal variation, given that different varieties of Spanish might not necessarily show the same trends.

• The data:

  • The data set used in this project is the Corpus del Español Web/Dialects, a 2-billion word, POS-tagged corpus that covers all Spanish-speaking countries. It has an online interface where advanced queries can be made and full exploration of the data set can be made by purchasing a license.

• Contents:

  • Code
    • Corpus processing (nbviewer)
    • Cleaning and exploratory analysis (nbviewer)
    • Statistics and analysis (nbviewer)
  • Data samples
    • There are two files available. The .txt file is a smaller sample for quick access that can be viewed online. The .zip file is a full sample that can be downloaded.
  • Figures
  • Presentation
    • Contains slides in .pdf format as well as an audio-narrated PowerPoint version.
  • License
    • This repository is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
  • Progress report
    • Periodical updates on the progress I make as I work on the project.
  • Project plan
    • Summary, goals, and scope of the project.
  • Final report
    • A final report that summarizes results, analysis, and future directions.
  • Guestbook
    • Hosted in a collaborative class repository.

• Contact:

• Feel free to contact me by email or through GitHub if you are interested in the project or the theory behind it. You can also find information about my other projects on my website or my Research Gate profile.