The Dimensions of Morphosyntactic Variation: Whorf, Greenberg and Nichols were right

We examine a database of 3089 languages coded for 351 morphosyntactic features, including almost all of the morphosyntactic features found in The World Atlas of Language Structures (Dryer & Haspelmath 2013). We apply Factor Analysis of Mixed Data, and determine that the main dimensions of global...

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Main Authors: Siva Kalyan, Mark Donohue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2023-12-01
Series:Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
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Online Access:https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/17482