New Proposal of Greenberg's Universal 14 from Typometrics
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Result language
angličtina
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New Proposal of Greenberg's Universal 14 from Typometrics
Original language description
In his Universal 14, Greenberg stated that the normal and dominant order in all world languages was to place the condition before the conclusion in conditional sentences. We take this claim to review it quantitatively and based on occurrences in real texts in more than 50 languages. We can see that Greenberg's proposal is correct but that it needs a reformulation to be true at all. We propose a quantitatively based and updated Universal 14, which gives a better account of the representation of the different languages analyzed and which is fulfilled in 100% of the cases (as opposed to Greenberg's 60% in our sample). In addition, we also analyze adverbial sentences. Once we obtain the occurrence data in their direction (before or after the main verb), we plot a new Universal in a typometrical way: 100% of the languages show a higher proportion of preceding conditional clauses than of adverbial clauses, regardless of their type or the direction preference for adverbial clauses. The relationship between the SOV type and a stricter initial conditional location is also proposed. © 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
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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)
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Jt. Int. Conf. Comput. Linguist., Lang. Resour. Eval., LREC-COLING - Main Conf. Proc.
ISBN
978-249381410-4
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
12217-12226
Publisher name
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Event location
Torino, Italia
Event date
Jan 1, 2025
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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