Topic-marking prepositions in Swedish: A corpus-based analysis of adpositional synonymy

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Granvik ◽  
Susanna Taimitarha

This study analyses the relationship between four near-synonymous Swedish prepositions, namely angående, beträffande, gällande and rörande, which are used to establish what we call a topic-marking relation, as in statens avtal angående finansieringen ‘the agreement of the state regarding the financing’. By focusing on a single, loosely defined genre consisting of the written texts included in the Swedish PAROLE corpus, we address the question of what differences there are among these four prepositions, which intuitively seem highly similar and mutually interchangeable. In order to find out which contextual and grammatical factors might influence the choice of one preposition over the others, two complementary analyses were performed. First, a so-called collostructional analysis (see Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003, Gries & Stefanowitsch 2004) was performed on 791 cases of these prepositions found in the PAROLE corpus. Secondly, the corpus examples were annotated according to ten syntactic and four semantic criteria and a multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed on the annotated data set. The results show some tendencies pointing to differing usage patterns of the four prepositions. Beträffande stands out as the most frequent of them all and is also preferably used when no explicit head element is present, typically in sentence-initial position. Angående prefers words of communication while rörande is used when another topic-marking preposition is also present. On the other hand, neither of the two analyses leads to a clear distinction among the four prepositions, thus pointing to the fact that these topic-marking prepositions indeed constitute a fairly good case of adpositional synonymy, with few distinguishing factors separating one from the other.

Author(s):  
Aron Laxdal ◽  
Andreas Ivarsson

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between legal stops and winning in team handball. Real-time analysis was performed on all games played in the Icelandic elite division for both males and females (regular season and playoffs) between 2017–2021 (854 games [570 male games, 284 female games], 32,392 legal stops in total). Legal stops were assessed as any physical action by a defensive player that resulted in the stop of play, without the defensive player being penalized or the offensive player receiving a 7-meter throw. The results from a multinomial logistic regression analysis indicated that legal stops were significantly associated with winning games in the male league. No statistically significant relationship was found between illegal stops and game outcome for either sex. However, 2-minute suspensions were found to be positively associated with winning in the male league.


Author(s):  
Nobutoshi Nawa ◽  
Yui Yamaoka ◽  
Yuna Koyama ◽  
Hisaaki Nishimura ◽  
Shiro Sonoda ◽  
...  

Face mask use is a critical behavior to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2. We aimed to evaluate the association between social integration and face mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic in a random sample of households in Utsunomiya City, Greater Tokyo, Japan. Data included 645 adults in the Utsunomiya COVID-19 seROprevalence Neighborhood Association (U-CORONA) study, which was conducted after the first wave of the pandemic, between 14 June 2020 and 5 July 2020, in Utsunomiya City. Social integration before the pandemic was assessed by counting the number of social roles, based on the Cohen’s social network index. Face mask use before and during the pandemic was assessed by questionnaire, and participants were categorized into consistent mask users, new users, and current non-users. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between lower social integration score and face mask use. To account for possible differential non-response bias, non-response weights were used. Of the 645 participants, 172 (26.7%) were consistent mask users and 460 (71.3%) were new users, while 13 (2.0%) were current non-users. Lower social integration level was positively associated with non-users (RRR: 1.76, 95% CI: 1.10, 2.82). Social integration may be important to promote face mask use.


Author(s):  
Rifda Nabila ◽  
Risdiana Himmati ◽  
Rendra Erdkhadifa

Abstrak: Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk membandingkan analisis regresi logistik multinomial dan analisis diskriminan untuk mengelompokkan keputusan kunjungan wisata halal di Jawa Tengah berdasarkan ketepatan pengelompokan. Analisis statistik yang digunakan adalah regresi logistik multinomial dan analisis diskriminan. Kedua analisis tersebut dapat digunakan sebagai metode pengelompokan objek, sehingga keduanya dapat dibandingkan berdasarkan ketepatan pengelompokkannya. Penelitian ini membandingkan analisis regresi logistik multinomial dan analisis diskriminan dalam pengelompokan keputusan kunjungan wisata halal. Data yang digunakan adalah worship facilities, halalness, general Islamic mortality, dan tourism destination image. Hasil analisis menggunakan metode regresi logistik multinomial menunjukkan faktor-faktor yang secara signifikan mempengaruhi pengelompokan keputusan kunjungan wisata halal adalah variabel tourism destination image, variabel halalness, dan variabel general Islamic morality. Sedangkan dengan analisis diskriminan menunjukkan bahwa semua variabel prediktor yakni worship facilities, halalness, general Islamic mortality, dan tourism destination image memberikan pengaruh secara signifikan terhadap pengklasifikasian keputusan mengunjungi destinasi wisata halal. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa metode regresi logistik multinomial lebih baik untuk pengelompokkan keputusan kunjungan wisata halal dibandingan metode analisis diskriminan, dengan presetnase ketepatan pengelompokkan pada metode regresi logit multinomial sebesar 59,5%  dan analisis diskriminan sebesar 53,5%. Analisis regresi logistik multinominal lebih mudah digunakan dalam proses pengelompokan keputusan kunjuangan wisata halal karena tidak mempertimbangkan asumsi yang harus dipenuhi. Kata Kunci: Analisis Diskriminan; Regresi Logistik Multinominal; Keputusan Mengunjungi   Abstract: The purpose of this study is to compare multinomial logistic regression analysis and discriminant analysis to classify decisions on halal tourism visits in Central Java based on grouping accuracy. Statistical analysis used is multinomial logistic regression and discriminant analysis. The two analyzes can be used as a method of grouping objects, so that they can be compared based on the accuracy of the grouping. This study compares multinomial logistic regression analysis and discriminant analysis in grouping decisions for halal tourism visits. The data used are worship facilities, halalness, general Islamic mortality, and tourism destination image. The results of the analysis using the multinomial logistic regression method show that the factors that significantly influence the grouping of decisions for halal tourism visits are the tourism destination image variable, the halalness variable, and the general Islamic morality variable. Meanwhile, discriminant analysis shows that all predictor variables namely worship facilities, halalness, general Islamic mortality, and tourism destination image have a significant influence on the classification of decisions to visit halal tourist destinations. This study shows that the multinomial logistic regression method is better for grouping decisions on halal tourist visits than the discriminant analysis method, with a preset percentage of grouping accuracy in the multinomial logit regression method of 59.5% and discriminant analysis of 53.5%. Multinominal logistic regression analysis is easier to use in the process of grouping halal tourism travel decisions because it does not consider the assumptions that must be met. Keywords: Discriminant Analysis; Multinomial Logistic Regression; Visiting decision.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raini Stamm ◽  
Meelis Stamm ◽  
Doris Torilo ◽  
Kaivo Thomson ◽  
Alexander Jairus

The aim of this study was to analyse the differences between men’s and women’s teams of the Estonian highest league in attack, serve, block, defence and serve reception. The sample consisted of 5 men’s and 5 women’s teams of the Estonian volleyball highest league in the 2014/2015 season. To collect data, two game videos of each team were watched; from them tempo of attack, type of attack, block and serve, and the results of defence and cover were registered. In addition, statistics created by the Data Volley and Volleysoft 6–3 programs on the basis of expert assessments were used to estimate the efficiency of volleyball elements and results of reception. SPSS Statistics 23 version for Windows was used to construct frequency tables and multinomial logistic regression analysis was applied to find the probable frequencies of the activities analysed. The results revealed that in Estonian men’s highest league games quick tempo 1 attacks were used statistically significantly more often than in women’s games. Men were more proficient at attack and used a vigorous spike more often than women. For both genders, double block was the most often used block type. Broken double block was more common to men than to women. The serve type most often used by men was the power jump serve, followed by the tactical float serve. Women most often used the standing serve and, as second, the jump float serve. Men made more serve errors than women did. The percentage of ace serves was also higher in women than in men.In defence, the percentage of the ball remaining in play was higher in women than in men, and women’s defence cover was more efficient than men’s. As a result of attack cover, the ball remained in play nearly by half more frequently in women’s than in men’s games. Nonetheless, women scored fewer points as a result of attack cover. Serve reception in the Estonian highest league was better in men, and men made statistically significantly fewer errors in reception than women did.


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