Abstract
A recent newspaper corpus on Japanese verb phrase adverbials (Namba & Tamaoka, 2014) revealed that the canonical positions for manner and resultative adverbials are SOAdvV for resultative adverbials and SAdvOV and SOAdvV for manner adverbials. This difference of adverbial position is assumed to be derived from the strength of the selectional restriction between an adverbial and a verb. Since the adverbials have different positions, the selectional restriction for each adverbial type should be distinctly unique from each other. The current study investigated this claim by using a newspaper corpus to calculate type and token frequencies of the collocations of adverbial type with verbs and calculated two indexes of entropy and redundancy for each adverbial type. A cluster analysis revealed that while manner adverbials were likely to co-occur with various types of verbs found within a single cluster, resultative adverbials, on the other hand, were likely to occur with specific verb types classified in a separate cluster. From the collocation patterns of adverbials, manner adverbials were shown to have loose selectional restriction whereas resultative adverbials were strict.
https://ror.org/04chrp450 
