Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use
The Smith-Stark hierarchy, a version of the Animacy Hierarchy, offers a typology of the cross-linguistic availability of number. The hierarchy predicts that the availability of number is not arbitrary. For any language, if the expression of plural is available to a noun, it is available to any noun...
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| author | Dunstan Brown Greville G. Corbett Sebastian Fedden Andrew Hippisley Paul Marriott |
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| description | The Smith-Stark hierarchy, a version of the Animacy Hierarchy, offers a typology of the cross-linguistic availability of number. The hierarchy predicts that the availability of number is not arbitrary. For any language, if the expression of plural is available to a noun, it is available to any noun of a semantic category further to the left of the hierarchy. In this article we move one step further by showing that the structure of the hierarchy can be observed in a statistical model of number use in Russian. We also investigate three co-variates: plural preference, pluralia tantum and irregularity effects; these account for an item's behaviour being different than that solely expected from its animacy position. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b381f98f56ec4ad39fcd4091c51385f12022-12-22T01:40:35ZengInstitute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of SciencesJournal of Language Modelling2299-856X2299-84702013-12-011210.15398/jlm.v1i2.6920Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number useDunstan Brown0Greville G. Corbett1Sebastian Fedden2Andrew Hippisley3Paul Marriott4University of YorkUniversity of SurreyUniversity of SurreyUniversity of KentuckyUniversity of WaterlooThe Smith-Stark hierarchy, a version of the Animacy Hierarchy, offers a typology of the cross-linguistic availability of number. The hierarchy predicts that the availability of number is not arbitrary. For any language, if the expression of plural is available to a noun, it is available to any noun of a semantic category further to the left of the hierarchy. In this article we move one step further by showing that the structure of the hierarchy can be observed in a statistical model of number use in Russian. We also investigate three co-variates: plural preference, pluralia tantum and irregularity effects; these account for an item's behaviour being different than that solely expected from its animacy position.https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/69animacy hierarchyfrequencynumberRussian |
| spellingShingle | Dunstan Brown Greville G. Corbett Sebastian Fedden Andrew Hippisley Paul Marriott Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use Journal of Language Modelling animacy hierarchy frequency number Russian |
| title | Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use |
| title_full | Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use |
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| title_short | Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use |
| title_sort | grammatical typology and frequency analysis number availability and number use |
| topic | animacy hierarchy frequency number Russian |
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