Basic word order typology revisited: A crosslinguistic quantitative study based on UD and WALS

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0001" target="_blank" >10.1515/lingvan-2021-0001</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Basic word order typology revisited: A crosslinguistic quantitative study based on UD and WALS

Original language description

"This study quantitatively examines the first five universals of Greenberg's basic word order typology based on 74 large-scale annotated corpora from two perspectives. The results show that (1) the dominant orders extracted from corpora concur with those retrieved from the World Atlas of Language Structures (henceforth, WALS) and provide knowledge of dominant orders to languages absent in the WALS, demonstrating the feasibility of adopting corpora to determine dominant orders in typological studies; (2) approaching word order as a discrete variable suggests that the relative order of adjective and noun cannot be predicted by the relative orders of object and verb and genitive and noun, which means the violation of Greenberg's related universal; (3) approaching word order as a continuous variable also indicates the violation of this universal; and (4) the language samples based on the annotated corpora database further demonstrates that languages that are in line with this universal are rare and internally heterogeneous. Our findings suggest the possibility of drawing typological conclusions based on the frequencies and probabilities extracted from corpora materials and demonstrate that a more cautious adoption of the well-known universals is needed, indicating the importance of viewing word order features from various perspectives to better capture the characteristics of natural languages. © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2023."

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

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

"Linguistics Vanguard"

ISSN

2199-174X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

2023

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

73-85

UT code for WoS article

001036777800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85167461061