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