Commentary on Croft and Poole, Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis.
The article comments on "Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis," by William Croft and Keith T. Poole. The focus is on: the use of semantic mapping in linguistic typology to analyze variations in language; the argument for multidimensional...
| Publicado en: | Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 67 - 74 |
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De Gruyter
Jan2008
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| Sumario: | The article comments on "Inferring universals from grammatical variation: Multidimensional scaling for typological analysis," by William Croft and Keith T. Poole. The focus is on: the use of semantic mapping in linguistic typology to analyze variations in language; the argument for multidimensional scaling or the Optimal Classification nonparametric unfolding algorithm; and criticism of Croft and Poole's assumption that their model organizes universal concepts in meaning. |
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