On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2990692
AutoresMatthew S Dryer (autor de correspondencia), Matthew Dryer
Año2018
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.0.0232
OpenAlexW4254779153
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas44
Referencias citadas23

This article reports on a typological study of the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, based on a sample of 576 languages. I propose a set of five surface principles which interact to predict the relative frequencies of the different orders of these four elements, whereby the more principles an order conforms to, the more frequent it will be. I provide evidence that the relative frequencies of the different orders can only be described and explained in terms of semantic notions of demonstrative, numeral, and adjective, independent of their syntactic realization, and not in terms of syntactic categories. I compare my approach to a generative account of the same phenomenon by Cinque (2005). I argue that my approach accounts for the relative frequencies of the different orders better than Cinque's in a number of respects

Adjective · Adverb · Demonstrative · Generative grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Numeral system · Realization (probability) · Relative clause · Statistics · Word order · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation