Advantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological investigations
Advantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological investigations
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在类型学研究中使用平行文本的优点和缺点
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2007
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Bernhard Wälchli
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Bernhard Wälchli
In this paper, advantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological studies are considered according to the criteria of diversity, domains, analysis, per-spective, quality, representativity, and comparability. It is shown in a case study of multi-verb constructions (including serial verb constructions, converb constructions, etc.) in two motion event domains (BRING and RUN) how typology can profit from parallel texts especially in the investigation of quantitative variables. A method is introduced to transform features with continuous distributions into ternary features with low, intermediate, and high values which can then be tested for correlations.