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- Title
Exploring T3 languages with quantitative computational syntax.
- Authors
Merlo, Paola; Samo, Giuseppe
- Abstract
Let T3 be the word order distribution of T3 languages, [S[VO]] the word order distribution of [S[VO]] languages and I Sl i the word order distribution of Slavic languages. The target article explores typological properties of Slavic languages which are often, according to the authors, mistakenly classified as SVO languages. We first quantify the similarity of Slavic language with respect to [S[VO]] and unfixed word order languages in terms of the Kullback-Leibler divergence and confirm that Slavic languages show closer similarity to unfixed word orders. The first hypothesis compares the distributions of word orders in Slavic, [S[VO]] languages and varieties labelled as unfixed word order/T3, such as stages of Latin and Ancient Greek (see also [11], [12]).
- Subjects
WORD order (Grammar); NATURAL language processing; SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
Theoretical Linguistics, 2022, Vol 48, Issue 1/2, p73
- ISSN
0301-4428
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/tl-2022-2032