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Coordinator |
UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
Organization address contact info |
Coordinator Country | Germany [DE] |
Project website | http://research.uni-leipzig.de/unicodas/grammatical-universals/ |
Total cost | 1˙772˙625 € |
EC max contribution | 1˙772˙625 € (100%) |
Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
Code Call | ERC-2014-ADG |
Funding Scheme | ERC-ADG |
Starting year | 2015 |
Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-11-01 to 2020-10-31 |
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1 | UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG | DE (LEIPZIG) | coordinator | 1˙772˙625.00 |
This project will document and explain a substantial number of grammatical universals by demonstrating a link between cross-linguistic patterns of language form and general trends of language use. The claim is that frequently expressed meanings tend to be expressed by short forms, not only at the level of words, but also throughout the grammars of languages around the world (form-frequency correspondences). A simple example is the asymmetry in the coding of present-tense forms and future-tense forms in the world’s languages, as one out of a multitude of analogous cases: Present-tense forms tend to be short or zero-coded, while future-tense forms tend to be longer or to have an overt marker. This corresponds to a usage asymmetry: Present-tense forms are generally more frequent than future-tense forms, in all languages. The proposed explanation is that higher-frequency items are more predictable than lower-frequency items, and predictable content need not be expressed overtly or can be expressed by shorter forms. Form-frequency correspondences thus make language structure more efficient, but it still needs to be shown that there exists a mechanism that creates and maintains these efficient structures: recurrent instances of language change driven by the speakers’ preference for user- friendly utterances. The project thus combines cross-linguistic research on grammar, cross-linguistic corpus research and historical linguistics in a ground- breaking way. For reasons that have to do with the history of the discipline, form-frequency correspondences are still largely overlooked and ignored by linguists, so the current project will have a significant impact on our general understanding of human language.
year | authors and title | journal | last update |
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2016 |
Natalia Levshina Why we need a token-based typology: A case study of analytic and lexical causatives in fifteen European languages published pages: 507–542, ISSN: 0165-4004, DOI: 10.1515/flin-2016-0019 |
Folia Linguistica 50/2 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Levshina, Natalia A MULTIVARIATE STUDY OF T/V FORMS IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES BASED ON A PARALLEL CORPUS OF FILM SUBTITLES published pages: , ISSN: 2083-4616, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582337 |
Research in Language 5 | 2019-07-05 |
2016 |
Dagmar Divjak, Natalia Levshina, Jane Klavan “Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward†published pages: 235-268, ISSN: 0936-5907, DOI: 10.1515/cog-2016-0095 |
Cognitive Linguistics 27/4 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Haspelmath, Martin Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale published pages: , ISSN: 2083-6090, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.807021 |
Lingua Posnaniensis 2 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Levshina, Natalia & Liesbeth Degand. Just because: In search of objective criteria of subjectivity expressed by causal connectives. published pages: 132-150, ISSN: 2152-9620, DOI: 10.5087/dad.2017.105 |
Dialogue & Discourse 8 (1) | 2019-07-05 |
2016 |
Natalia Levshina Verbs of letting in Germanic and Romance languages: A quantitative investigation based on a parallel corpus of film subtitles published pages: 84-117, ISSN: 1387-6759, DOI: 10.1075/lic.16.1.04lev |
Languages in Contrast 16/1 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Haspelmath, Martin Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity published pages: , ISSN: 1613-3706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583231 |
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 3 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Levshina, Natalia Measuring iconicity: A quantitative study of lexical and analytic causatives in British English published pages: , ISSN: 1569-9765, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582339 |
Functions of Language 4 | 2019-07-05 |
2016 |
Natalia Levshina When variables align: A Bayesian multinomial mixed-effects model of English permissive constructions published pages: 235-268, ISSN: 0936-5907, DOI: 10.1515/cog-2015-0054 |
Cognitive Linguistics 27/2 | 2019-07-05 |
2016 |
M. Haspelmath The Serial Verb Construction: Comparative Concept and Cross-linguistic Generalizations published pages: 291-319, ISSN: 1606-822X, DOI: 10.1177/2397002215626895 |
Language and Linguistics 17/3 | 2019-07-05 |
2016 |
Natalia Levshina Control, causation and Google counts1 published pages: 253-263, ISSN: 1384-5845, DOI: 10.5117/NEDTAA2016.2.LEVS |
Nederlandse Taalkunde 21/2 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Ilja Serzants The Perfect/Resultative in Tocharian. published pages: 237-288, ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.573318 |
The Typology of the Perfect. Investigations into the Theory of Grammar. Issue VII | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Holger Diessel Cross-linguistic patterns in the structure, function, and position of (object) complement clauses published pages: 1-38, ISSN: 0024-3949, DOI: 10.1515/ling-2016-0035 |
Linguistics 55/1 | 2019-07-05 |
2016 |
Martin Haspelmath The challenge of making language description and comparison mutually beneficial published pages: 299-301, ISSN: 1430-0532, DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2016-0008 |
Linguistic Typology 20/2 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Michaelis, Susanne Maria World-wide comparative evidence for calquing valency patterns in creoles published pages: , ISSN: 1877-4091, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.844615 |
Journal of Language Contact 1 | 2019-07-05 |
2017 |
Levshina, Natalia Online film subtitles as a corpus: An ngram-based approach published pages: , ISSN: 2083-4616, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582336 |
Research in Language 5 | 2019-07-05 |
2018 |
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, Russell D. Gray Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics published pages: 180205, ISSN: 2052-4463, DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.205 |
Scientific Data 5 | 2019-04-18 |
2017 |
Haspelmath, Martin How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different (revised) published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.798726 |
2 | 2019-04-03 |
2018 |
Haspelmath, Martin Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits (draft) published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1163410 |
1 | 2019-04-03 |
2018 |
Natalia Levshina Probabilistic grammar and constructional predictability: Bayesian generalized additive models of help + (to) Infinitive in varieties of web-based English published pages: , ISSN: 2397-1835, DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.294 |
Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3/1 | 2019-04-03 |
2017 |
Haspelmath, Martin Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity published pages: 193-231, ISSN: 1613-3706, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.788663 |
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36(2) 1 | 2019-04-03 |
2016 |
Natalia Levshina Finding the best fit for direct and indirect causation: a typological study published pages: 65-82, ISSN: 2083-6090, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582333 |
Lingua Posnaniensis, Vol 58, Iss 2 1 | 2019-04-03 |
2016 |
Martin Haspelmath Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale published pages: 33-63, ISSN: 2083-6090, DOI: 10.1515/linpo-2016-0009 |
Lingua Posnaniensis 58/2 | 2019-04-03 |
2017 |
Michaelis, Susanne Maria Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1255789 |
1 | 2019-04-03 |
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