Syntactic Productivity

Degrees of productivity
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• Assuming different levels of schematicity automatically entails
gradient productivity
• The productivity domain of each category is a function of its type
frequency and coherence
• The highest level of schematicity of each construction thus
determines its productivity
• BUT if the highest level of schematicity is derived from the type
frequency of a construction, can’t productivity then just be reduced
to type frequency
• No, not really, because a construction’s level of schematicity cannot
be derived from the type frequency of low-type frequency
constructions.
Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 2008