Head and dependent marking and dependency length in possessive noun phrases: A typological study of morphological and syntactic complexity

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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.
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TidskriftLinguistics vanguard : multimodal online journal
Volym9
Nummer1
Sidor (från-till)45-57
Antal sidor13
ISSN2199-174X
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 31 maj 2023
MoE-publikationstypA1 Tidskriftsartikel-refererad
EvenemangInteractive Workshop on Measuring Language Complexity - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Tyskland
Varaktighet: 12 sep. 201913 sep. 2019
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