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Abstract
The Smith-Stark hierarchy, a version of the Animacy Hierarchy, offers a typology of the cross-linguistic availability of number. The hierarchy predicts that the availability of number is not arbitrary. For any language, if the expression of plural is available to a noun, it is available to any noun of a semantic category further to the left of the hierarchy. In this article we move one step further by showing that the structure of the hierarchy can be observed in a statistical model of number use in Russian. We also investigate three co-variates: plural preference, pluralia tantum and irregularity effects; these account for an item’s behaviour being different than that solely expected from its animacy position.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Language
English
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.15398/jlm.v1i2.69
Repository Citation
Brown, Dunstan; Corbett, Greville G.; Fedden, Sebastian; Hippisley, Andrew R.; and Marriott, Paul, "Grammatical Typology and Frequency Analysis: Number Availability and Number Use" (2013). Linguistics Faculty Publications. 64.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/lin_facpub/64
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Journal of Language Modelling, v. 1, no. 2, p. 227-241.
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