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Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use

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The Smith-Stark hierarchy, a version of the Animacy Hierarchy, offers a typology of the cross-linguistic availability of number. The hierarchy predicts that the availability of number is not arbitrary. For any language, if the expression of plural is available to a noun, it is available to any noun of a semantic category further to the left of the hierarchy. In this article we move one step further by showing that the structure of the hierarchy can be observed in a statistical model of number use in Russian. We also investigate three co-variates: plural preference, pluralia tantum and irregularity effects; these account for an item's behaviour being different than that solely expected from its animacy position.

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hal-03602200 , version 1 (08-03-2022)

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Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett, Sebastian Fedden, Andrew Hippisley, Paul Marriott. Grammatical typology and frequency analysis: number availability and number use. Journal of Language Modelling, 2014, 1 (2), pp.227-241. ⟨10.15398/jlm.v1i2.69⟩. ⟨hal-03602200⟩
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