General linguistics must be based on universals (or non-conventional aspects of language)

Haspelmath, Martín

doi:10.1515/tl-2021-2002

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“…Evans and Levinson (2009) critically discuss the idea of "linguistic universals", demonstrating extensive diversity across all levels of linguistic organization. The distinction between g-linguistics, a study of Human Language in general, and p-linguistics, a study of particular languages, including their idiosyncratic properties, is discussed in Haspelmath (2021). The UniMorph annotation schema (Sylak-Glassman et al, 2015b), and this work in particular, is an attempt to balance the tradeoff between descriptive categories and comparative concepts through a more fine-grained analysis of languages (Haspelmath, 2010).…”

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UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology

Batsuren¹,

Goldman²,

Khalifa³

et al. 2022

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The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort providing broad-coverage instantiated normalized morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse world languages. The project comprises two major thrusts: a languageindependent feature schema for rich morphological annotation and a type-level resource of annotated data in diverse languages realizing that schema. This paper presents the expansions and improvements made on several fronts over the last couple of years (since McCarthy et al. (2020)). Collaborative efforts by numerous linguists have added 67 new languages, including 30 endangered languages. We have implemented several improvements to the extraction pipeline to tackle some issues, e.g. missing gender and macron information. We have also amended the schema to use a hierarchical structure that is needed for morphological phenomena like multiple-argument agreement and case stacking, while adding some missing morphological features to make the schema more inclusive. In light of the last UniMorph release, we also augmented the database with morpheme segmentation for 16 languages. Lastly, this new release makes a push towards inclusion of derivational morphology in UniMorph by enriching the data and annotation schema with instances representing derivational processes from MorphyNet.

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UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology

Batsuren¹,

Goldman²,

Khalifa³

et al. 2022

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The methodological incompatibility between an innate grammar and a bottom-up approach

Xie

2023

SN Soc Sci

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For Universal Grammar (UG), the identification of substantial universals seems unprincipled, because it is indeterminable, with solely bottom-up assumptions, whether a category advanced in UG is entailed by the notion of innateness, or on that basis, what sufficiently evidences its presence. Unable to constrain the theorization of UG, innateness only seems to be inexplicable, that is, it must be questioned how UG is framed within an innate blueprint. I contend that bottom-up assumptions hardly create an innate universal grammar. A theory resulting from bottom-up assumptions is contingent whereas UG must be a promise that the hypothetical Language Faculty (LF) is epistemologically unique (necessary truth). From bottom up, the identity of a linguistic item always points to multiple possibilities and is ad hoc, as no one has real access to the way that a linguistic item naturally exists in LF. Therefore, unless the principle(s) of how categories are recognised and organised in the LF can be genuinely set out for UG, so that its categorisation inputs all linguistic items methodically and outputs their identities uniquely, the putative substantial inventory of UG is unlikely to be complete and systematic: categories in it are merely opportunistically thrown up on random grounds.

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Modalité, typologie et cognition : la construction devoir + I NFINITIF comme périphrase future et évidentielle

Kronning

2023

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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General linguistics must be based on universals (or non-conventional aspects of language)

Cited by 4 publications

References 72 publications

UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology

UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology

The methodological incompatibility between an innate grammar and a bottom-up approach

Modalité, typologie et cognition : la construction devoir + I NFINITIF comme périphrase future et évidentielle

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