Form-frequency correspondences in grammar

Project Information

FormGram

Grant agreement ID: 670985

DOI 10.3030/670985

Project closed

EC signature date 14 August 2015

Start date 1 November 2015

End date 31 October 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 772 625,00

EU contribution € 1 772 625,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
Germany

Publications

Book chapters (5)

On Hawkins's Efficiency Programme_Supplementary Materials

Author(s): Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: Language Science Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2577480

Comparing reflexive constructions in the world's languages

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3354081

Equative constructions in world-wide perspective

Author(s): Martin Haspelmath
Published in: Similative and equative constructions A cross-linguistic perspective, 2017, Page(s) 9-32, ISBN 9789-027206985
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/tsl.117.02has

Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Grammaticalization from a typological perspective, edited by Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine, Issue 1, 2018, ISBN 978-0198-795841
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1133895

The Perfect/Resultative in Tocharian.

Author(s): Ilja Serzants
Published in: The Typology of the Perfect. Investigations into the Theory of Grammar., Issue Issue VII, 2017, Page(s) 237-288
Publisher: Nauka
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.573318

Peer reviewed articles (24)

Indexing and flagging, and head and dependent marking

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Te Reo, Issue 62(1), 2019, Page(s) 93-115, ISSN 1613-3706
Publisher: linguistic society of new zealand
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3678475

Human Linguisticality and the Building Blocks of Languages

Author(s): Martin Haspelmath
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 10, 2020, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.03056

Ergativity and depth of analysis

Author(s): Martin Haspelmath
Published in: Rhema, Issue 4, 2019, 2019, Page(s) 108-130, ISSN 2500-2953
Publisher: Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Moscow Pedagogical State University”
DOI: 10.31862/2500-2953-2019-4-108-130

Token-based typology and word order entropy: A study based on Universal Dependencies (a draft)

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Linguistic Typology, Issue 23(3), 2019, ISSN 1613-415X
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2558403

Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 36(2), Issue 1, 2017, Page(s) 193-231, ISSN 1613-3706
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.788663

Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale

Author(s): Martin Haspelmath
Published in: Lingua Posnaniensis, Issue 58/2, 2016, Page(s) 33-63, ISSN 2083-6090
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/linpo-2016-0009

Probabilistic grammar and constructional predictability: Bayesian generalized additive models of help + (to) Infinitive in varieties of web-based English

Author(s): Natalia Levshina
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 3/1, 2018, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.294

Finding the best fit for direct and indirect causation: a typological study

Author(s): Natalia Levshina
Published in: Lingua Posnaniensis, Vol 58, Iss 2, Issue 1, 2016, Page(s) 65-82, ISSN 2083-6090
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582333

Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

Author(s): Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, Russell D. Gray
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 5, 2018, Page(s) 180205, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.205

Why we need a token-based typology: A case study of analytic and lexical causatives in fifteen European languages

Author(s): Natalia Levshina
Published in: Folia Linguistica, Issue 50/2, 2016, Page(s) 507–542, ISSN 0165-4004
Publisher: The Hague Mouton
DOI: 10.1515/flin-2016-0019

The Serial Verb Construction: Comparative Concept and Cross-linguistic Generalizations

Author(s): M. Haspelmath
Published in: Language and Linguistics, Issue 17/3, 2016, Page(s) 291-319, ISSN 1606-822X
Publisher: Zhong Yang Yan Jiu Yuan yu Yan Yan Jiu Suo Chou Bei Chu
DOI: 10.1177/2397002215626895

The challenge of making language description and comparison mutually beneficial

Author(s): Martin Haspelmath
Published in: Linguistic Typology, Issue 20/2, 2016, Page(s) 299-301, ISSN 1430-0532
Publisher: Mouton de DeGruyter
DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2016-0008

Verbs of letting in Germanic and Romance languages: A quantitative investigation based on a parallel corpus of film subtitles

Author(s): Natalia Levshina
Published in: Languages in Contrast, Issue 16/1, 2016, Page(s) 84-117, ISSN 1387-6759
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/lic.16.1.04lev

Control, causation and Google counts1

Author(s): Natalia Levshina
Published in: Nederlandse Taalkunde, Issue 21/2, 2016, Page(s) 253-263, ISSN 1384-5845
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
DOI: 10.5117/NEDTAA2016.2.LEVS

When variables align: A Bayesian multinomial mixed-effects model of English permissive constructions

Author(s): Natalia Levshina
Published in: Cognitive Linguistics, Issue 27/2, 2016, Page(s) 235-268, ISSN 0936-5907
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2015-0054

“Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward”

Author(s): Dagmar Divjak, Natalia Levshina, Jane Klavan
Published in: Cognitive Linguistics, Issue 27/4, 2016, Page(s) 235-268, ISSN 0936-5907
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2016-0095

Just because: In search of objective criteria of subjectivity expressed by causal connectives.

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia & Liesbeth Degand.
Published in: Dialogue & Discourse, Issue 8 (1), 2017, Page(s) 132-150, ISSN 2152-9620
Publisher: D&D
DOI: 10.5087/dad.2017.105

Cross-linguistic patterns in the structure, function, and position of (object) complement clauses

Author(s): Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, Holger Diessel
Published in: Linguistics, Issue 55/1, 2017, Page(s) 1-38, ISSN 0024-3949
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/ling-2016-0035

World-wide comparative evidence for calquing valency patterns in creoles

Author(s): Michaelis, Susanne Maria
Published in: Journal of Language Contact, Issue 1, 2017, ISSN 1877-4091
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.844615

Measuring iconicity: A quantitative study of lexical and analytic causatives in British English

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Functions of Language, Issue 4, 2017, ISSN 1569-9765
Publisher: John Benjamins
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582339

Universals of causative and anticausative verb formation and the spontaneity scale

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Lingua Posnaniensis, Issue 2, 2017, ISSN 2083-6090
Publisher: Mout de Gruyter
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.807021

A MULTIVARIATE STUDY OF T/V FORMS IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES BASED ON A PARALLEL CORPUS OF FILM SUBTITLES

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Research in Language, Issue 5, 2017, ISSN 2083-4616
Publisher: University of Lodz
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582337

Online film subtitles as a corpus: An ngram-based approach

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Research in Language, Issue 5, 2017, ISSN 2083-4616
Publisher: University of Lodz
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582336

Explaining alienability contrasts in adpossessive constructions: Predictability vs. iconicity

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Issue 3, 2017, ISSN 1613-3706
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.583231

Other (5)

Communicative efficiency and probabilistic grammar: Bayesian mixed-effect regression models of help + (to) Infinitive in varieties of web-based English

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Issue 1, 2017
Publisher: zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582334

How comparative concepts and descriptive linguistic categories are different (revised)

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Issue 2, 2017
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.798726

Avoiding bias in comparative creole studies: Stratification by lexifier and substrate

Author(s): Michaelis, Susanne Maria
Published in: Issue 1, 2017
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1255789

Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits (draft)

Author(s): Haspelmath, Martin
Published in: Issue 1, 2018
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1163410

Anybody (at) home? Communicative efficiency knocking on the Construction Grammar door (draft)

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3369486

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Review of Baker, Mark (2015) Case

Author(s): Martin Haspelmath
Published in: Studies in Language, Issue 42/2, 2018, Page(s) 474-486, ISSN 0378-4177
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1075/sl.16059.has

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Towards a Theory of Communicative Efficiency in Human Languages

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Issue 1, 2018
Publisher: Uni Leipzig
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1542857

Conference proceedings (1)

Communicative efficiency and syntactic predictability: A crosslinguistic study based on the Universal Dependencies corpora

Author(s): Levshina, Natalia
Published in: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, Issue 5, 2017, Page(s) 72-78, ISBN 978-91-7685-501-0
Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.582325