Paper Info
Title
Word Order, Marking, and a Two-Dimensional Classification of Parts-of-Speech System Types
Abstract
Within the framework of Hengeveld's approach to parts-of-speech systems, this article shows that Vulanovic's two-dimensional classification of main parts-of-speech system types applies both to the types presented by Hengeveld, Rijkhoff, and Siewierska in their 2004 paper and to the new types recently reported by Hengeveld and van Lier. Hengeveld and van Lier's principles for explaining the attested main parts-of-speech system types are also discussed and a set of simpler and more accurate principles is proposed. Furthermore, the two-dimensional classification is extended to intermediate parts-of-speech system types, which enables a linguistic data analysis of the kind done in Vulanovic and Kohler's 2009 article. This analysis shows that the proportion of languages that use fixed word order and grammatical markers to facilitate disambiguation between different propositional functions depends on the type of the parts-of-speech system. The dependence is expressed by a three-dimensional generalization of the sigmoid.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1080/09296174.2010.485450
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
data analysis,functional dependency,three dimensional,word order,part of speech
Word order,Computer science,Part of speech,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Linguistics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17.0
3
0929-6174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
3
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Relja Vulanovic13513.39