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