60_[9783110338812 - Volume 1] 6. Statistical.pdf

Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language may imply the presence of others, Silverstein’s (1976) observations on an...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-237042024-03-22T19:23:04Z Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies Wichmann, Søren Malchukov, Andrej Comrie, Bernard Valency Verb Classes Argument Alternations thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language may imply the presence of others, Silverstein’s (1976) observations on animacy scales, and the formulation of the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy by Keenan & Comrie (1977). The following passage from Corbett (2010: 191) is worth quoting in full because it clearly states why such hierarchies are important, and also because the last sentence reflects an assumption which is worth dwelling upon as the point of departure for the present paper: “Hierarchies are one of the most powerful theoretical tools available to the typologist. They allow us to make specific and restrictive claims about possible human languages. This means that it is easy to establish what would count as counterexamples, and as a result there are relatively few hierarchies which have stood the test of time.” 2019-11-19 23:55 2020-01-07 16:47:06 2020-04-01T09:26:27Z 2020-04-01T09:26:27Z 2015 chapter 1006440 OCN: 1135855217 9783110332940; 9783110395273 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23704 eng application/pdf n/a 60_[9783110338812 - Volume 1] 6. Statistical.pdf De Gruyter Introducing the Framework, and Case Studies from Africa and Eurasia 10.1515/9783110338812-010 10.1515/9783110338812-010 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 230fe2f7-0d96-497a-b8c5-b6d189663f6a 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9783110332940; 9783110395273 European Research Council (ERC) Berlin/Boston 295918 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) open access
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description Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language may imply the presence of others, Silverstein’s (1976) observations on animacy scales, and the formulation of the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy by Keenan & Comrie (1977). The following passage from Corbett (2010: 191) is worth quoting in full because it clearly states why such hierarchies are important, and also because the last sentence reflects an assumption which is worth dwelling upon as the point of departure for the present paper: “Hierarchies are one of the most powerful theoretical tools available to the typologist. They allow us to make specific and restrictive claims about possible human languages. This means that it is easy to establish what would count as counterexamples, and as a result there are relatively few hierarchies which have stood the test of time.”
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title_full_unstemmed 60_[9783110338812 - Volume 1] 6. Statistical.pdf
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