Eitan Grossman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3842745 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eitan Grossman |
| PRENOMES | Eitan |
| SOBRENOME | Grossman |
| ASSINATURA | GROSSMAN E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7479-7831 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Tonogenesis
This article presents the Database of Tonogenetic Events (DTE), which describes 259 tonogenetic events from 104 genealogically and geographically diverse language varieties. The DTE allows us to identify the main types of reported tonogenesis triggering contexts, the types of resultant tones, and their effects on pitch. We illustrate the usefulness of the database with case studies addressing (i) the frequency of different types of tonogenesis, (…
Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow
Do speakers use less redundant language with more proficient interlocutors? Both the communicative efficiency framework and the language development literature predict that speech directed to younger infants should be more redundant than speech directed to older infants. Here, we test this by quantifying redundancy in infant-directed speech using entropy rate - an information-theoretic measure reflecting average degree of repetitiveness. While ID…
Operationalizing Borrowability
Operationalizing Borrowability
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological segments and to make predictions about the likelihood that speech sounds will be borrowed in language contact situations. Our approach departs from traditional borrowability hierarchies based on qualitative observations and instead provides empirically motivated models based on proba…
Nuer
This chapter covers the Eastern Jikany variety of Nuer, a Western Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan and the border of Ethiopia. Noteworthy phenomena in the language include: (1) vowel mutation as a main morphological tool, due to size restrictions; (2) complex non-linear morphology; (3) reduplication on adjectives; (4) a fundamental morphological distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs; (5) a sg-pl system with a direction of de…
Current research in phonological typology
its study is still underrepresented in many important venues Therefore, we (Moran and Grossman) organized two conference workshops in 2019 aimed specifically at highlighting current research in phonological typology. The first, entitled 'Phonological (in)stability and language evolution,' took place at the annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), from August 21-24, in Leipzig, Germany. The second, which shares the title with thi…
Speakers use more redundant references with language learners
According to the communicative efficiency hypothesis, speakers should produce more linguistic material when comprehension difficulty increases. Here, we investigate a potential source of comprehension difficulty – listeners’ language proficiency – on speakers’ productions, using referential choice as a case study. Referential choice is influenced by communicative efficiency: pronouns are used less than full noun phrases (NPs) for less predictable…
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon
This paper investigates universal and areal structures in the lexicon as manifested by colexification patterns in the semantic domains of perception and cognition, based on data from both small and large datasets. Using several methods, including weighted semantic maps, formal concept lattices, correlation analysis, and dimensionality reduction, we identify colexification patterns in the domains in question and evaluate the extent to which these …
Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle
The feature-economy principle is one of the key theoretical notions which have been postulated to account for the structure of phoneme inventories in the world's languages. In this paper, we test the explanatory power of this principle by conducting a study of the co-occurrence of consonant segments in phonological inventories, based on a sample of 2761 languages. We show that the feature-economy principle is able to account for many important pa…
Valency and Transitivity in Contact
Language-Specific Transitivities in Contact
This paper sketches the integration of Greek-origin loan verbs into the valency and transitivity patterns of Coptic (Afroasiatic, Egypt), arguing that transitivities are language-specific descriptive categories, and the comparison of donor-language transitivity with target-language transitivity reveals fine-grained degrees of loan-verb integration. Based on a comparison of Coptic Transitivity and Greek Transitivity, it is shown that Greek-origin …
Areal sound change and the distributional typology of affricate richness in Eurasia
This paper makes a contribution to phonological typology by investigating the distribution of affricate-rich languages in Eurasia. It shows that affricate-rich and affricate-dense languages cluster areally within Eurasia and have area-specific histories. In particular, the affricate-rich areas of western Eurasia – a ‘European’ area and a Caucasian area – are not the result of contact-induced sound changes or borrowing, while the two affricate-ric…
Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period
This volume deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the people who actually produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. Breaking with the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as ‘free’ or indicative of ‘corruption’, this volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the point of view of contemporary historical soc…
For the sake of an argument. Grammatical relations and argument selectors in Baltic
Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., Argument Realization in Baltic. (Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016. viii + 560 p. ISBN (hardback): 9789027259110, ISBN (e-book): 9789027267535 This volume is the third in the series Valency, Argument Realization and Gram-matical Relations in Baltic. It comprises thirteen articles, the majority of which are devoted to case and case alt…
Did Greek Influence the Coptic Preference for Prefixing? A Quantitative-Typological Perspective
The present article takes a quantitative approach to investigating contact-induced change, using typological parameters established for the purposes of cross-linguistic comparison. Specifically, it examines the likelihood that a socio-politically dominant language, Greek (Indo-European), influenced the morphological structure of a socio-politically subordinate indigenous language, Coptic (Afroasiatic). Based on the high prefixing score of Coptic …
Letters from High to Low in the Graeco-Roman Period
In this chapter, papyrus letters sent from superiors to their inferiors are studied on the basis of test cases ranging across the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt, from the third century BCE to the third century CE. This correspondence is drawn from four archival groups of texts: the archive of Zenon; the letters of L. Bellienus Gemellus and the letters of the sons of Patron; and the Heroninus archive. The letters are usually short, full of imperativ…
The road to auxiliariness revisited
Auxiliary verbs are known to grammaticalize from lexical verbs, but how do lexical verbs acquire verbal complements to begin with? This article provides an account of the semantic and pragmatic basis of grammaticalization of the Spanish anterior (‘perfect’) [ acabar + de + infinitive] from a lexical source construction meaning finish . Based on a description of finish in terms of its qualia structure, we argue that verbs meaning finish are lexica…
What can historical linguistics and experimental pragmatics offer each other
Language change is a central concern for any linguistic theory. For one thing, it is often assumed that language change is explanatory, in that it provides a reasonable answer to what Haspelmath dubbed ‘Greenberg’s Problem’ in 2014: why are languages the way they are? A short version of the Greenbergian answer is: ‘Because they became that way through processes of language change.’ However, this sort of answer throws into focus the fact that lang…
Condition(AL)S of Repayment
This article is a re-edition of P. CLT 10, which was originally published with minimal commentary, no image, and a number of transcription errors. Subsequent published translations improved understanding of the text, but were not made in consultation with the original manuscript. The re-edition of the text, with the first published image of this document, is accompanied by a linguistic analysis. This highlights a number of grammatical features ch…
Nucleus-Satellite Analysis and Conjugation Mediation in Coptic and Later Egyptian
Article Nucleus-Satellite Analysis and Conjugation Mediation in Coptic and Later Egyptian was published on February 1, 2008 in the journal Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (volume 135, issue 1-2)
Operationalizing Borrowability
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological segments and to make predictions about the likelihood that speech sounds will be borrowed in language contact situations. Our approach departs from traditional borrowability hierarchies based on qualitative observations and instead provides empirically motivated models based on proba…
Valency and Transitivity in Contact
Nucleus-Satellite Analysis and Conjugation Mediation in Coptic and Later Egyptian
Article Nucleus-Satellite Analysis and Conjugation Mediation in Coptic and Later Egyptian was published on February 1, 2008 in the journal Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (volume 135, issue 1-2)
Condition(AL)S of Repayment
This article is a re-edition of P. CLT 10, which was originally published with minimal commentary, no image, and a number of transcription errors. Subsequent published translations improved understanding of the text, but were not made in consultation with the original manuscript. The re-edition of the text, with the first published image of this document, is accompanied by a linguistic analysis. This highlights a number of grammatical features ch…
What can historical linguistics and experimental pragmatics offer each other
Language change is a central concern for any linguistic theory. For one thing, it is often assumed that language change is explanatory, in that it provides a reasonable answer to what Haspelmath dubbed ‘Greenberg’s Problem’ in 2014: why are languages the way they are? A short version of the Greenbergian answer is: ‘Because they became that way through processes of language change.’ However, this sort of answer throws into focus the fact that lang…
The road to auxiliariness revisited
Auxiliary verbs are known to grammaticalize from lexical verbs, but how do lexical verbs acquire verbal complements to begin with? This article provides an account of the semantic and pragmatic basis of grammaticalization of the Spanish anterior (‘perfect’) [ acabar + de + infinitive] from a lexical source construction meaning finish . Based on a description of finish in terms of its qualia structure, we argue that verbs meaning finish are lexica…
Areal sound change and the distributional typology of affricate richness in Eurasia
This paper makes a contribution to phonological typology by investigating the distribution of affricate-rich languages in Eurasia. It shows that affricate-rich and affricate-dense languages cluster areally within Eurasia and have area-specific histories. In particular, the affricate-rich areas of western Eurasia – a ‘European’ area and a Caucasian area – are not the result of contact-induced sound changes or borrowing, while the two affricate-ric…
Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period
This volume deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the people who actually produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. Breaking with the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as ‘free’ or indicative of ‘corruption’, this volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the point of view of contemporary historical soc…
For the sake of an argument. Grammatical relations and argument selectors in Baltic
Axel Holvoet & Nicole Nau, eds., Argument Realization in Baltic. (Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations in Baltic, 3) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2016. viii + 560 p. ISBN (hardback): 9789027259110, ISBN (e-book): 9789027267535 This volume is the third in the series Valency, Argument Realization and Gram-matical Relations in Baltic. It comprises thirteen articles, the majority of which are devoted to case and case alt…
Did Greek Influence the Coptic Preference for Prefixing? A Quantitative-Typological Perspective
The present article takes a quantitative approach to investigating contact-induced change, using typological parameters established for the purposes of cross-linguistic comparison. Specifically, it examines the likelihood that a socio-politically dominant language, Greek (Indo-European), influenced the morphological structure of a socio-politically subordinate indigenous language, Coptic (Afroasiatic). Based on the high prefixing score of Coptic …
Letters from High to Low in the Graeco-Roman Period
In this chapter, papyrus letters sent from superiors to their inferiors are studied on the basis of test cases ranging across the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt, from the third century BCE to the third century CE. This correspondence is drawn from four archival groups of texts: the archive of Zenon; the letters of L. Bellienus Gemellus and the letters of the sons of Patron; and the Heroninus archive. The letters are usually short, full of imperativ…
Valency and Transitivity in Contact
Language-Specific Transitivities in Contact
This paper sketches the integration of Greek-origin loan verbs into the valency and transitivity patterns of Coptic (Afroasiatic, Egypt), arguing that transitivities are language-specific descriptive categories, and the comparison of donor-language transitivity with target-language transitivity reveals fine-grained degrees of loan-verb integration. Based on a comparison of Coptic Transitivity and Greek Transitivity, it is shown that Greek-origin …
Consonant co-occurrence classes and the feature-economy principle
The feature-economy principle is one of the key theoretical notions which have been postulated to account for the structure of phoneme inventories in the world's languages. In this paper, we test the explanatory power of this principle by conducting a study of the co-occurrence of consonant segments in phonological inventories, based on a sample of 2761 languages. We show that the feature-economy principle is able to account for many important pa…
Universal and macro-areal patterns in the lexicon
This paper investigates universal and areal structures in the lexicon as manifested by colexification patterns in the semantic domains of perception and cognition, based on data from both small and large datasets. Using several methods, including weighted semantic maps, formal concept lattices, correlation analysis, and dimensionality reduction, we identify colexification patterns in the domains in question and evaluate the extent to which these …
Nuer
This chapter covers the Eastern Jikany variety of Nuer, a Western Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan and the border of Ethiopia. Noteworthy phenomena in the language include: (1) vowel mutation as a main morphological tool, due to size restrictions; (2) complex non-linear morphology; (3) reduplication on adjectives; (4) a fundamental morphological distinction between transitive and intransitive verbs; (5) a sg-pl system with a direction of de…
Current research in phonological typology
its study is still underrepresented in many important venues Therefore, we (Moran and Grossman) organized two conference workshops in 2019 aimed specifically at highlighting current research in phonological typology. The first, entitled 'Phonological (in)stability and language evolution,' took place at the annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), from August 21-24, in Leipzig, Germany. The second, which shares the title with thi…
Speakers use more redundant references with language learners
According to the communicative efficiency hypothesis, speakers should produce more linguistic material when comprehension difficulty increases. Here, we investigate a potential source of comprehension difficulty – listeners’ language proficiency – on speakers’ productions, using referential choice as a case study. Referential choice is influenced by communicative efficiency: pronouns are used less than full noun phrases (NPs) for less predictable…
Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow
Do speakers use less redundant language with more proficient interlocutors? Both the communicative efficiency framework and the language development literature predict that speech directed to younger infants should be more redundant than speech directed to older infants. Here, we test this by quantifying redundancy in infant-directed speech using entropy rate - an information-theoretic measure reflecting average degree of repetitiveness. While ID…
Operationalizing Borrowability
Operationalizing Borrowability
This study provides two mathematical formalizations of borrowability. These operationalizations allow us to quantitatively evaluate the borrowability of phonological segments and to make predictions about the likelihood that speech sounds will be borrowed in language contact situations. Our approach departs from traditional borrowability hierarchies based on qualitative observations and instead provides empirically motivated models based on proba…
Tonogenesis
This article presents the Database of Tonogenetic Events (DTE), which describes 259 tonogenetic events from 104 genealogically and geographically diverse language varieties. The DTE allows us to identify the main types of reported tonogenesis triggering contexts, the types of resultant tones, and their effects on pitch. We illustrate the usefulness of the database with case studies addressing (i) the frequency of different types of tonogenesis, (…
Linguistics (17 obras) · Philosophy (13 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 obras) · Mathematics (5 obras) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (4 obras)