A sampling technique for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios

IF 1.7 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Francesca Di Garbo, Ricardo Napoleão de Souza
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Abstract Existing sampling methods in language typology strive to control for areal biases in typological datasets as a means to avoid contact effects in the distribution of linguistic structure. However, none of these methods provide ways to directly compare contact scenarios from a typological perspective. This paper addresses this gap by introducing a sampling procedure for worldwide comparisons of language contact scenarios. The sampling unit consists of sets of three languages. The Focus Language is the language whose structures we examine in search for contact effects; the Neighbor Language is genealogically unrelated to the Focus Language, and counts as the potential source of contact influence on the Focus Language; the Benchmark Language is a relative of the Focus Language neither in contact with the Focus nor with the Neighbor language, and is used for disentangling contact effects from genealogical inheritance in the Focus Language. Through this design, we compiled a sample of 49 three-language sets (147 languages in total), which we present here. By switching the focus of typological sampling from individual languages to contact relations between languages, our method has the potential of uncovering patterns in the diffusion of language structures, and how they vary and change.
一种用于世界范围内语言接触情景比较的抽样技术
摘要语言类型学中现有的抽样方法努力控制类型学数据集中的区域偏差,以避免语言结构分布中的接触效应。然而,这些方法都没有提供从类型学角度直接比较接触情景的方法。本文通过引入一种抽样程序来对世界范围内的语言接触情景进行比较,从而解决了这一差距。采样单元由三种语言组成。焦点语言是我们研究其结构以寻找接触效果的语言;邻近语言在系谱上与焦点语言无关,并被视为对焦点语言产生接触影响的潜在来源;基准语言是焦点语言的亲戚,既不与焦点语言接触,也不与邻居语言接触,用于从焦点语言的系谱继承中分离接触效果。通过这次设计,我们编制了49个三语言集(共147种语言)的样本,我们在这里展示。通过将类型学抽样的重点从单个语言转向语言之间的联系关系,我们的方法有可能揭示语言结构扩散的模式,以及它们如何变化和变化。
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期刊介绍: Linguistic Typology provides a forum for all work of relevance to the study of language typology and cross-linguistic variation. It welcomes work taking a typological perspective on all domains of the structure of spoken and signed languages, including historical change, language processing, and sociolinguistics. Diverse descriptive and theoretical frameworks are welcomed so long as they have a clear bearing on the study of cross-linguistic variation. We welcome cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of linguistic diversity, as well as work dealing with just one or a few languages, as long as it is typologically informed and typologically and theoretically relevant, and contains new empirical evidence.
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