Georg F K Höhn
Georg F K Höhn
This paper investigates cross-linguistic variation in the expression of adnominal person (persn; cf. English "we linguists") based on a survey of 114 languages, focusing on word order. Two subtypes are distinguished according to whether per...
Anna Bugaeva,Johanna Nichols,Balthasar Bickel
Anna Bugaeva
Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most common kind of alienable/inalienable distinction, which involves marking...
A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios [0.03%]
语言接触场景的全球比较抽样技术
Francesca Di Garbo,Ricardo Napoleão de Souza
Francesca Di Garbo
Existing sampling methods in language typology strive to control for areal biases in typological datasets as a means to avoid contact effects in the distribution of linguistic structure. However, none of these methods provide ways to direct...
Steven Moran,Shelece Easterday,Eitan Grossman
Steven Moran
Natalia Levshina
Natalia Levshina
Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and annotation style, that a novice might not know where to start. The p...