Chapter 6 Statistical observations on implicational (verb) hierarchies

• Main Author: Wichmann, Søren (auth)
• Other Authors: Malchukov, Andrej (Editor), Comrie, Bernard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2015
• Subjects: linguistics; Grammar, syntax & morphology; Valency; Verb Classes; Argument Alternations
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Implicational hierarchies have been one of the key ingredients in linguistic typology for around half a century, i.e., ever since the discovery of Berlin & Kay (1969) that the presence of a certain color term in a language may imply the presence of others, Silverstein's (1976) observations...