@article{varvara:_groun_seman_trans_in_contex,
  abstract = { We present the results of a large-scale corpus-based comparison of
  two German event nominalization patterns: deverbal nouns in
 -ung (e.g., die Evaluierung, 'the evaluation')
  and nominal infinitives (e.g., das Evaluieren, 'the
  evaluating'). Among the many available event nominalization
  patterns for German, we selected these two because they are both
  highly productive and challenging from the semantic point of view.
  Both patterns are known to keep a tight relation with the event
  denoted by the base verb, but with different nuances. Our study
  targets a better understanding of the differences in their semantic
  import.

  The key notion of our comparison is that of semantic transparency,
  and we propose a usage-based characterization of the relationship
  between derived nominals and their bases. Using methods from
  distributional semantics, we bring to bear two concrete measures of
  transparency which highlight different nuances: the first one,
  cosine, detects nominalizations which are semantically
  similar to their bases; the second one, distributional
    inclusion, detects nominalizations which are used in a subset of
  the contexts of the base verb. We find that the inclusion measure
  helps in characterizing the difference between the two types of
  nominalizations, in relation with the traditionally considered
  variable of relative frequency (Hay, 2001). We further benefit from
  our distributional analysis to frame our comparison in the broader
  coordinates of the inflection vs. derivation cline.},
  added-at = {2021-04-22T09:47:08.000+0200},
  author = {Varvara, Rossella and Lapesa, Gabriella and Padó, Sebastian},
  biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2710319e2b7cd0a488842da3889289927/sp},
  interhash = {3cb922fdbc49dea0b6529ec82e7a0133},
  intrahash = {710319e2b7cd0a488842da3889289927},
  journal = {Morphology},
  keywords = {article myown},
  pages = {409-446},
  timestamp = {2021-10-25T07:36:36.000+0200},
  title = {Grounding Semantic Transparency In Context: A Distributional Semantic Study on {G}erman Event Nominalizations},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-021-09382-w},
  volume = 31,
  year = 2021
}