DE eng

Search in the Catalogues and Directories

Hits 1 – 4 of 4

1
Crosslinguistic Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology ...
Schnell, Stefan; Schiborr, Nils Norman. - : Annual Reviews, 2022
BASE
Show details
2
Universals of reference in discourse and grammar: Evidence from the Multi-CAST collection of spoken corpora
Haig, Geoffrey; Schnell, Stefan; Schiborr, Nils Norman. - : University of Hawai'i Press, 2021
Abstract: Data from under-researched languages are now available in sufficient quantity and quality to feed into corpus-based approaches to language typology. In this paper we present Multi-CAST (Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts), a project designed to facilitate cross-linguistic comparison of naturalistic discourse across typologically diverse languages, which implements a purpose-built shared annotation scheme. After sketching the rationale and architecture of Multi-CAST, we illustrate the efficacy of the method with two case-studies: The first one investigates the rates of lexical (as opposed to pronominal and zero) realization of arguments in discourse across a sample of 15 typologically diverse languages. Our results reveal a remarkable and hitherto unnoticed uniformity in the density of lexical references, despite the lack of content control in the corpora. The second addresses the question of whether cross-linguistically attested regularities in morphosyntax can meaningfully be related to frequency effects in discourse. We find some support for frequency-based explanations, but our data also show that the frequency accounts leave several key questions unanswered. Overall, our findings underscore that research based on language documentation-derived corpus data, and in particular spoken language data, is not only possible, but in fact crucially necessary for testing frequency-based explanations, because these data stem from spoken language and typologically diverse languages. We also identify a number of epistemological and methodological shortcomings with our approach, and discuss some of the requirements for further innovation in areas of corpus building, corpus annotation, and typological comparability. ; LD&C-SP25__5_Haig+Schnell+Schiborr.pdf
Keyword: corpus-based typology; discourse structure; marking asymmetries; referential choice; universals of language use
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/74660
BASE
Hide details
3
Universals of reference in discourse and grammar: Evidence from the Multi-CAST collection of spoken corpora
Haig, Geoffrey; Schnell, Stefan; Schiborr, Nils Norman. - : University of Hawai'i Press, 2021
BASE
Show details
4
Corpus-based Typological Research in Discourse and Grammar: GRAID and Multi-CAST
Schnell, Stefan; Schiborr, Nils Norman. - : Tōkyō, 2019. : Tōkyō Gaikokugo Daigaku Ajia Afurika Gengo Bunka Kenkyūjo, 2019
BASE
Show details

Catalogues
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Bibliographies
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Linked Open Data catalogues
0
Online resources
0
0
0
0
Open access documents
4
0
0
0
0
© 2013 - 2024 Lin|gu|is|tik | Imprint | Privacy Policy | Datenschutzeinstellungen ändern