Directional constructions in Matukar Panau
A Bayesian approach to assessing variation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22030328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kira Davey (0009-0002-1542-364X, Australian National University), Danielle Barth (0000-0002-2952-644X, Australian National University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 156-194 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia-Pacific Language Variation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2215-1354 • E-ISSN: 2215-1362 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/aplv.23005.dav |
| OpenAlex | W4390740225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 53 |
The Oceanic language Matukar Panau has three equivalent morphosyntactic strategies for describing the direction of the event represented by a verb, with a system of ten directional morphemes that can appear in each construction. This variation is explored using a corpus from Matukar Panau and analysed quantitatively with Bayesian regression analyses to assess what factors influence the choice of directional construction. Variables pertaining to the lexical verb and the directional morphemes are found to be the most important factors affecting the variation in the directional system. Sociolinguistic factors are shown to play a less significant role. The findings have implications for the grammaticalization of directional elements, as well as the typology of directional constructions in Oceanic languages
Geography · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Morpheme · Natural language processing · Physics · Typology · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Serial Verb Constructions in Namakir of Central Vanuatu
Serial Verbs in Loniu and an Evolving Preposition
Nuclear Layer Serialization in Lewo
Verb Serialization and "Verbal-Prepositions" in Oceanic Languages
Space in Language and Cognition
World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Stan
Moving beyond noninformative priors
Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and Waic
Advanced Bayesian Multilevel Modeling with the R Package brms
Inference from Iterative Simulation Using Multiple Sequences
BRMS
Serial Verbs
Serial Verbs in Paamese
Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English
Layering, competition and a twist of fate
A History of Metatypy in the Bel Languages
Models, forests, and trees of York English
When variables align
On iconicity of distance
The typology of motion expressions revisited
Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed speech
The Serial Verb Construction
Leveraging the temporal dynamics of anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in linguistic prediction
Statistical methods for linguistic research
Statistical Methods for Linguistic Research
A Grammar of Mam, a Mayan Language
| Citations per year | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |