Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology

By B. Comrie. 1981

Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Linguistics

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TyDi QA: A Benchmark for Information-Seeking Question Answering in Typologically Diverse Languages (2020, methodology): “Substantial fusional(18) morphology (Comrie, 1989) is used along with three grammatical genders (Corbett, 1982), extensive prodrop (Bizzarri, 2015), and flexible word order (Bivon, 1971).”
Learning Language Representations for Typology Prediction (2017, background): “This study has been a scientific pursuit in its own right since the 19th century (Greenberg, 1963; Comrie, 1989; Nichols, 1992), but recently typology has borne practical fruit within various subfields of NLP, particularly on problems involving lower-resource languages.”
Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Language Clustering (2019, background): “For example, Hu (Hungarian) and Ja (Japanese) are similar as they are typical agglutinative languages in terms of morphological typology (Comrie, 1989).”
Language acquisition and conceptual development: Individuation, relativity, and early word learning (2001, methodology): “A useful way to compare languages is to use what is sometimes called the Animacy continuum (Allan 1980; Comrie 1981 ; Croft 1990 ; Lucy 1992b) .”
Why verbs are hard to learn (2006, background): “7. Comrie (1981, p. 179) notes that some languages treat proper names as being "higher in animacy" than common noun phrases: for example, "William Shakespeare" versus "the author of Hamlet."”
SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection (2020, background): “Linguistic typology is the discipline that studies these variations by means of a systematic comparison of languages (Croft, 2002; Comrie, 1989).”
On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection (2011, background): “Syntagmatic richness refers to the capacity of a language to combine several inflectional affixes in a single word-form (Comrie, 1981; Greenberg, 1954/1960).”
Psychological universals: what are they and how can we know? (2005, background): “Although human universals have been largely overlooked in psychology, they have been examined in linguistics (eg, Comrie, 1981; Slobin, 1978) and biology (eg, Alexander, 1979; Dobzhansky, 1962).”
The Threshold Hypothesis, Semilingualism, and Other Contributions to a Deficit View of Linguistic Minorities (2000, background): “…Minorities Jeff MacSwan Arizona State University Although some educational researchers have appealed to “semilingualism” or “limited bilingualism” to explain differences in student achievement among language minority students, in this article the author argues that the construct contributes much…”