Linguistic Typology
Linguistically Naïve != Language Independent: Why NLP Needs Linguistic Typology
... Linguistic typology is an approach to the sci- entific study of language which was pioneered in its modern form by Joseph Greenberg in the 1950s and 1960s (see ...lar linguistic phenomena are ...
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A Probabilistic Generative Model of Linguistic Typology
... in linguistic typology. We first outline the technical linguistic background necessary for the model’s ...possible linguistic structures, which he termed universal grammar (Chomsky, ...
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The Grammar of Knowledge: a cross-linguistic typology
... The volume starts with a typological introduction outlining the marking, and the meaning, of evidentials and other ways of marking information source, together with cultural and social aspects of the conceptualization of ...
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The Semantics of Clause Linking: a cross-linguistic typology
... Simon Overall received his MA in Linguistics from the University of Auckland in 1999. and in 2007 he completed his Ph.D. at RCLT, La Trobe University. His Ph.D. dissertation was a grammar of Aguaruna, a Jivaroan language ...
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Universal Reordering via Linguistic Typology
... The field of linguistic typology studies the similarities and distinguishing features between languages and aims to classify them accordingly. Among other areas, the World Atlas of Language Structures ...
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Continuous Space Representations of Linguistic Typology and their Application to Phylogenetic Inference
... Typological features have two advantages over other linguistic traits. First, they allow us to com- pare an arbitrary pair of languages. By contrast, historical linguistics has worked on regular sound changes (see ...
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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
... Payne Typology and Historical Linguistics Silvia Luraghi Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Structure and Linguistic Complexity Peter Trudgill Typology and Grammaticalization Reiko Narrog [r] ...
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Universal Stanford dependencies: A cross linguistic typology
... The Stanford Dependencies (SD) representation (de Mar- neffe et al., 2006) was originally developed as a practical representation of English syntax, aimed at natural language understanding (NLU) applications. However, it ...
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Statistical Learning Theory and Linguistic Typology: a Learnability Perspective on OT’s Strict Domination
... As reviewed above, HG fundamentally differs from OT because it does away with strict domination and therefore allows for gang effects in which multiple violations of lower-weighted constraints outweigh a violation of a ...
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Cross Entropy and Linguistic Typology
... It is easier and more accurate to measure cross-entropy in this way, is sensitive to the sublan- guage of the samples used and hence can be used for smaller-scale experiments, and is sen[r] ...
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From Phonology to Syntax: Unsupervised Linguistic Typology at Different Levels with Language Embeddings
... In the experiments for RQ1 and RQ2 we predict typological features extracted from WALS (Dryer and Haspelmath, 2013). We choose to investi- gate three linguistic levels of language: phonol- ogy, morphology, and ...
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THE AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES. edited by R. M. W. DIXON and ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD Research Centre for Linguistic Typology La Trobe University, Melbourne
... The Amazon basin is the least known and least understood linguistic region in the world. Maps of the language families of South America (with one colour for each genetic group) purvey an impression of anarchy – ...
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The Grammar of Knowledge: a cross-linguistic typology
... Contents v1 9 Conclusion 87 References 87 4 The grammar of knowledge in Saaroa 89 Chia-jung Pan i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Preliminaries 89 Organization of the evidential system 92 Expressi[r] ...
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Possession and Ownership: a cross-linguistic typology
... AIKHENVALD is Distinguished Professor and Tropical Leader People and Societies of the Tropics and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre in the Cairns Institute and School [r] ...
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Possession and Ownership: a cross-linguistic typology
... 217-19,278-9 genitive classifiers, see possessive classifiers genitive possession schema 30 grammatical relation markers and possessive markers 41-3, 173-5 grammatical relations 6.27.36-[r] ...
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Grammars In Contact: a cross-linguistic typology
... linguistic area or sprachbund is a geographically delimited region including languages from two o r more language families, or different subgrou ps of the same family, sharing significa[r] ...
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Grammars In Contact: a cross-linguistic typology
... Dixon 1 Introduction 2 Syntactic orientation 3 Free and bound pronouns 4 Parameters of variation for bound pronouns 5 The Wemba-Wemba language Tal 6 The Western Desert language 7 Discuss[r] ...
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Serial Verb Constructions: a cross-linguistic typology
... Index of Subjects compounding 1,7,33,37,58,227,273- 4, 303- 15 differences from serial verb construction 319-36, 344 productivity of 336 5ee also foot serialization, serial verb construc[r] ...
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The Semantics of Clause Linking: a cross-linguistic typology
... 254-5 prosodic marking of clause linking 399 purpose, see consequence real manner, see manner rejection, see alternatives relative clauses I, 7.[r] ...
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EUROPEAN AIRSPACE FRAGMENTATION TYPOLOGY
... fragmentation typology and to answer following research questions - Which fragmentation types exist?; What are the differences between them?; How they can be displayed?; Which types are more apparent than others?; ...
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