We test the hypothesis that the degree of grammaticalization of German prepositions correlates with their corpus-based contextual dispersion measured by word entropy. We find that there is indeed a moderate correlation for entropy, but a stronger correlation for frequency and number of context types.
@article{arxiv.1804.06719,
title = {Distribution-based Prediction of the Degree of Grammaticalization for German Prepositions},
author = {Dominik Schlechtweg and Sabine Schulte im Walde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06719},
year = {2018}
}