This paper investigates the distribution of negation strategies in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) light frequency-based data from a naturalistic TİD Corpus. On basis frequency occurrences, this study offers novel account on typological grounds: (i) by focusing nonmanual markers, we propose that clause can be negated with element only – pattern has been typologically proposed for other sign languag...

To date, most intonational typologies have been formulated on the basis of an analysis of a handful of the world s languages. In this study, intonational patterns were examined in an indigenous Australian language, Kayardild. This language appears to differ from other languages of the region in that intonation is not solely delimitative, and a wider variety of phrasal melodies are also observed...

There are above 60 million first language speakers of Urdu and above 104 million second language speakers. Lot of knowledge on the internet available/useful to these speakers of Urdu is in English. The contrast in typology of both languages is interesting to study for Statistical Machine Translation. However, there is almost no parallel aligned data available freely for the selected language pa...

This paper discusses the construction of a typological database of agreement on the basis of fifteen languages taken from different language families so as to maximise diversity. For each of these languages, the database will contain detailed information about agreement controllers, targets, domains, categories, and conditions. Thus the database is designed to help us to develop a general typol...

Two of the major assumptions that statistical tests make (random sampling, distribution of the data) are not tenable for most typological data. We suggest to use randomization tests, which avoid these assumptions. Randomization is applicable to frequency data, rank data, scalar measurements and ratings, so most typological data can be analyzed with the same tools. We provided a free computer pr...