Crosslinguistic Corpus Studies in Linguistic Typology

Corpus-Based Linguistic Typology: A Comprehensive Approach

This paper will have a holistic view at the field of corpus-based linguistic typology and present an overview of current advances at Leipzig University. Our goal is to use automatically created text data for a large variety of languages for quantitative typological investigations. In our approaches we utilize text corpora created for several hundred languages for crosslanguage quantitative stud...

Linguistic Typology

I argue that the distinction between comparative concepts and descriptive categories helps language describers and typologists to benefit from each other because describers are free to set up their own categories, typologists are free to define their own concepts, comparison need not involve complete systems, and interlinear translation can be either based on comparative concepts or descriptive...

Typology and Linguistic Areas

1. DEFINING A LINGUISTIC AREA IN “CENTRAL/EASTERN INDONESIA.” In her Rejoinder to Malcolm Ross’s squib, Klamer (2003) addresses Ross’s critique of her 2002 article, Typical features of Austronesian languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia, stating that, rather than attempting to present a rubric for evaluating genetic relatedness, the article was intended to describe a set of grammatical features...

Universal Reordering via Linguistic Typology

In this paper we explore the novel idea of building a single universal reordering model from English to a large number of target languages. To build this model we exploit typological features of word order for a large number of target languages together with source (English) syntactic features and we train this model on a single combined parallel corpus representing all (22) involved language p...

African languages and linguistic typology