Generalizing Language Comparison.
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 limitations of the method used by Croft and Poole to generalize semantic mapping for use in linguistic typology; lan...
| Publicado en: | Theoretical Linguistics Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 47 - 52 |
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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 limitations of the method used by Croft and Poole to generalize semantic mapping for use in linguistic typology; language comparison via the Optimal Classification Nonparametric Unfolding algorithm; and the recognition of pairwise similarities in sets of languages or comparative concepts. |
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