Is redundancy useful in language? Agent-recipient disambiguation in English and Dutch.
peer reviewed ; robustness in language processing and learning (MacWhinney et al. 2014), both from a typological and diachronic perspective. Specifically, we assess the potential benefits or costs of redundancy in morphosyntactic marking of participant roles, comparing and testing two opposing hypotheses: On the one hand, following the most crucial tenet in usage-based linguistics that language use affects – or even determines – grammar (Bybee 2010), we assume that language is organised in a way that facilitates efficient usage (e.g. Gibson et al. 2019). On this account, redundant marking shou... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conference poster not in proceedings |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Schlagwörter: | redundancy / efficiency / corpus / dative alternation / recipient / Arts & humanities / Languages & linguistics / Arts & sciences humaines / Langues & linguistique |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26641301 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/294518 |