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Abstract
The interaction of morphosyntactic features has been of great interest in research on linguistic complexity. In this paper we approach such interactions in possessive noun phrases. First, we study the interaction of head marking and dependent marking in this domain with typological feature data and with multilingual corpus data. The data suggest that there is a clear inverse relationship between head and dependent marking in possessive noun phrases in terms of complexity. The result points to evidence on complexity trade-offs and to productive integration of typological and corpus-based approaches. Second, we explore whether zero versus overt morphological marking as a measure of morphological complexity affects dependency length as a measure of syntactic complexity. Data from multilingual corpora suggest that there is no cross-linguistic trend between these measures in possessive noun phrases.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Linguistics vanguard : multimodal online journal |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 45-57 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| ISSN | 2199-174X |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 May 2023 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
| Event | Interactive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany Duration: 12 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019 http://www.christianbentz.de/MLC2019_index.html |
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- Language typology
- Corpus linguistics
- Dependency length
- Dependent marking
- Head marking
- Morphological complexity
- Possessive noun phrase
- Syntactic complexity
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Linguistic Adaptation: Typological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives to Language Variation
Sinnemäki, K. (Project manager), Ahola, N. (Participant), Di Garbo, F. (Participant), Haakana, V. (Participant), Hyvönen, A. P. (Participant), Kapellis, P. (Participant), Kashima, E. (Participant), Manninen, L. J. (Participant), Miyabe, S. E. (Participant), Napoleão de Souza, R. (Participant), Porkka, J. A. O. (Participant), Ahola, N. (Participant), Di Garbo, F. (Participant), Haakana, V. (Participant), Kashima, E. (Participant), Loisa, J. S. (Participant), Manninen, L. J. (Participant), Miyabe, S. E. (Participant), Napoleão de Souza, R. (Participant), Porkka, J. A. O. (Participant) & Raatikainen, O. A. K. (Participant)
01/01/2019 → 30/06/2024
Project: EU Horizon Europe: European Research Council: Starting Grant (H2020-ERC-STG)
Datasets
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Dataset for a typological study of adpossessive constructions
Sinnemäki, K. (Creator) & Haakana, V. L. J. (Creator), Zenodo, 2 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5055634, https://version.helsinki.fi/gramadapt/udw2020-adpossessive-constructions
Dataset
Activities
- 1 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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GramAdapt symposium "Language Contact and Linguistic Adaptation"
Haakana, V. L. J. (Poster Presentation) & Sinnemäki, K. (Poster Presentation)
30 May 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars