MegaAcceptability

Introduced 2019-08-14

The MegaAcceptability dataset is a collection of ordinal acceptability judgments for clause-embedding verbs of English in various surface-syntactic frames and matrix tenses. Here are some key details:

  • It includes judgments for 1,007 clause-embedding verbs of English in 50 surface-syntactic frames and three matrix tenses.
  • The dataset combines the MegaAcceptability version 1.0 and data collected for 25,000 additional verb-frame pairs on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk using Ibex on Mechanical Turk.
  • The dataset has been used to address questions in linguistic theory.