Oriental Studies (May 2018)
Mongolian Analytical Word Forms: an Effort of Quantitative Research
Abstract
The article attempts to measure the frequency use of analytical word forms in Mongolian. One of the difficulties is that the boundaries of the framework for such analytical constructions are unclear enough. The ranking list comprises not all structural analytical models of Mongolian syntactic molecules, but rather - the most commonly used ones. The threshold requirement for an analytical word form to be included in the list is 312 instances within the General Corpus of Mongolian (GCM-1a / Rus. ГКМЯ-1a), or 275 ipm. The work shows most commonly used analytical word forms with an absolute frequency of over 10 instances, a relative one of theirs being 9 ipm. The GCM-1a contains 1 818 such word forms. Zone one of a dictionary entry contains (in bold underscore, plain font) the conditional lexeme to which this analytical word form is referred to (the dictionary contains a total of 635 conditional lexemes). A conditional lexeme is a general designation for a lexeme as such and a quasi-lexeme (a homonymic bunch of lexemes bound in terms of morphological homonymy). Zone two (in bold non-underscore, plain font) represents a grammeme (a grammatical form) to which the synthetic word form belongs and that acts as an autosemantic component of this analytical word form. Zone three (in bold non-underscore italics) shows the very synthetic word form functioning as an autosemantic component of the analytical form. Zone four (in regular non-underscore italics) contains the structural analytical model according to which this analytical form is arranged. The functional component of the model is shown in its quasi-orthographic form, and the autosemantic one is replaced by the general symbol Z. Zone five (in bold non-underscore, plain font) describes the relative frequency of this analytical word form in the GCM-1a expressed in ipm (a minimum of 9).
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