Chapter 14 Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies

• Main Author: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
• Other Authors: Kageyama, Taro (Editor), Jacobsen, Wesley M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
• Subjects: linguistics; Valency; Japanese; Language Typology
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This chapter will begin by discussing the implicational verb hierarchy of Tsunoda (1985) as a convenient starting point for looking at what happens when are latively large dataset and a principled, quantitative approach to their analysis are brought to bear on a linguistic typological hypothesis. Af...