Highlighting this over that ‒ a cognitive and frequency explanation of transitive variation
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F26%3A6FZET33T" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/26:6FZET33T - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2024.2425512" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2024.2425512</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2024.2425512" target="_blank" >10.1080/03740463.2024.2425512</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Highlighting this over that ‒ a cognitive and frequency explanation of transitive variation
Original language description
The crosslinguistic variation of the transitive clause has been explained in different ways. This study approaches it from a mathematical perspective employing a scorecard to predict the high frequency of the SOV and the SVO over other possible types. A matching theoretical framework is found in markedness. It is proposed that the attested typological distribution pattern depends on the similarity of subject (S) and object (O)—both being nominals—and on their inequality because the subject, appearing in intransitive and transitive clauses alike, is more frequent in language use than the object, which is absent in intransitive clauses. Thus, the simplest explanation of the distribution is that such statistical asymmetry gives rise to the preference of highlighting the secondariness of the object in the basic order. SO is generally preferred over OS. Additionally, early SO is preferred over late SO, and late OS is preferred over early OS. The whole six-way distribution of subject, object, and verb (SOV > SVO > VSO > VOS > OVS > OSV) is generated on this basis. © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - 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)
Result continuities
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Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia
ISSN
0374-0463
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2025
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
1-30
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85218811904