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Verb-argument lability and its correlations with other typological parameters. A quantitative corpus-based study ...
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Frequency, Informativity and Word Length: Insights from Typologically Diverse Corpora
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In: Entropy (Basel) (2022)
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Cross-linguistic differential and optional marking database ...
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Cross-linguistic differential and optional marking database ...
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Loose and tight languages: A typology based on associations between constructions and lexemes ...
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Loose and tight languages: A typology based on associations between constructions and lexemes ...
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Cross-Linguistic Trade-Offs and Causal Relationships Between Cues to Grammatical Subject and Object, and the Problem of Efficiency-Related Explanations
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In: Front Psychol (2021)
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Cross-linguistic studies focus on inverse correlations (trade-offs) between linguistic variables that reflect different cues to linguistic meanings. For example, if a language has no case marking, it is likely to rely on word order as a cue for identification of grammatical roles. Such inverse correlations are interpreted as manifestations of language users’ tendency to use language efficiently. The present study argues that this interpretation is problematic. Linguistic variables, such as the presence of case, or flexibility of word order, are aggregate properties, which do not represent the use of linguistic cues in context directly. Still, such variables can be useful for circumscribing the potential role of communicative efficiency in language evolution, if we move from cross-linguistic trade-offs to multivariate causal networks. This idea is illustrated by a case study of linguistic variables related to four types of Subject and Object cues: case marking, rigid word order of Subject and Object, tight semantics and verb-medial order. The variables are obtained from online language corpora in thirty languages, annotated with the Universal Dependencies. The causal model suggests that the relationships between the variables can be explained predominantly by sociolinguistic factors, leaving little space for a potential impact of efficient linguistic behavior.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34322056 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.648200 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8311235/
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Database of Annotated Core Arguments: English, Lao and Russian ...
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Database of Annotated Core Arguments: English, Lao and Russian ...
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Linguistic Frankenstein, or How to test universal constraints without real languages ...
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Explanation in typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence ...
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Explanation in typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence ...
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Anybody (at) home? Communicative efficiency knocking on the Construction Grammar door (draft) ...
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Anybody (at) home? Communicative efficiency knocking on the Construction Grammar door (draft) ...
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Explanation in typology: Diachronic sources, functional motivations and the nature of the evidence
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In: Language Science Press; (2018)
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