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Advantages and disadvantages of using parallel texts in typological investigations
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Bernhard Wälchli
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September 25, 2009
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.
Keywords: parallel texts; motion events; multi-verb constructions; comparative constructions; quantitative variables
Published Online: 2009-09-25
Published in Print: 2007-07
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Keywords for this article
parallel texts;
motion events;
multi-verb constructions;
comparative constructions;
quantitative variables
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