Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use

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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Main Authors: Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett, Sebastian Fedden, Andrew Hippisley, Paul Marriott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Language Modelling
Subjects:
animacy hierarchy
frequency
number
Russian
Online Access:https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/69

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