Alignment everywhere all at once : applying the late aggregation principle to a typological database of argument marking

• Autorzy: Inman David , Witzlack-Makarevich Alena , Chousou-Polydouri Natalia , Steiger Melvin

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DOI

10.15398/jlm.v12i2.360

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This article presents the structure of the ATLAs Alignment Module, a typological database designed to exhaustively capture language-internal variation in argument marking (indexing and flagging). The flexible design of our database can be extended to cover further aspects of morphosyntactic alignment. We demonstrate with a small diversity sample how the database can be queried and the data aggregated at different levels of structure (e.g. for a language as a whole or for in-dividual referential types in the form of alignment statements) for the purposes of cross-linguistic comparison. The database is made avail-able in the Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF), and we provide code that generates an array of aggregations.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

alignment; typology; database; aggregation; morphology

• Wydawca: Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN
• Czasopismo: Journal of Language Modelling
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: Vol. 12, No. 2
• Strony: 287--347
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 70 poz., tab., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Inman David

• University of Zurich & Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-591X

autor

Witzlack-Makarevich Alena

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0138-4635

autor

Chousou-Polydouri Natalia

• University of Zurich & Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5693-975X

autor

Steiger Melvin

• University of Zurich & Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7300-0704

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