This data is used in an article which provides evidence via corpus data and statistical methods that defective verbs in Portuguese constitute a psychological reality for speakers. It looks at the different explanations for defective verbs in Portuguese and argues that the morphome-based explanation for Spanish defective verbs is the most appropriate to explain defective verbs in Portuguese. Morphomes are abstract distributional patterns of allomorphy based on form-form correspondences alone. This dataset contains the frequency values from the corpus study that I used to create the regression models in the study. It also contains raw frequency values from the same corpus for the supposed defective verbs upon which the statistical model was run. Results from statistical model are also included.

R studio, 2010