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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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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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Linguistic Frankenstein, or How to test universal constraints without real languages ...
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The scarcity of diachronic data represents a serious problem when linguists try to explain a typological universal. To overcome this empirical bottleneck, one can simulate the process of language evolution in artificial language learning experiments. After a brief discussion of the main principles and findings of such experiments, this paper presents a case study of causative constructions showing that language users have a bias towards the efficient organisation of communication. They regularise their linguistic input such that more frequent causative situations are expressed by shorter forms, and less frequent situations are expressed by longer forms. This supports the economy-based explanation of the universal form-meaning mapping found in causative constructions of different languages. ...
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2583819 https://zenodo.org/record/2583819
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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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