Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F23%3A39MJL6SW" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/23:39MJL6SW - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://benjamins.com/catalog/dia.20035.jin" target="_blank" >https://benjamins.com/catalog/dia.20035.jin</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.20035" target="_blank" >10.1075/dia.20035</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Word order evolves at similar rates in main and subordinate clauses

Original language description

"In syntactic change, it remains an open issue whether word orders are more conservative or innovative in subordinate clauses compared with main clauses. Using 47 dependency-annotated corpora and Bayesian phylogenetic inference, we explore the evolution of S/V, V/O, and S/O orders across main and subordinate clauses in Indo-European. Our results reveal similar rates of change across clause types, with no evidence for any inherent conservatism of subordinate or main clauses. Our models also support evolutionary biases towards SV, VO, and SO orders, consistent with theories of dependency length minimization that favor verb-medial orders and with theories of a subject preference that favor SO orders. Finally, our results show that while the word order in the proto-language cannot be estimated with any reasonable degree of certainty, the early history of the family was dominated by a moderate preference for SVO orders, with substantial uncertainty between VO and OV orders in both main and subordinate clauses."

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

"DIACHRONICA"

ISSN

0176-4225

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

40

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

532-556

UT code for WoS article

001060094500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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