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Transitivity prominence within and across modalities (2019)

Börstell, C., Jantunen, T., Kimmelman, V., de Lint, V., Mesch, J., & Oomen, M. (2019). Transitivity prominence within and across modalities. Open Linguistics, 5(1), 666-689. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0037

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Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Börstell, Carl; Jantunen, Tommi; Kimmelman, Vadim; de Lint, Vanja; Mesch, Johanna; Oomen, Marloes

Lehti tai sarja: Open Linguistics

eISSN: 2300-9969

Julkaisuvuosi: 2019

Volyymi: 5

Lehden numero: 1

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 666-689

Kustantaja: De Gruyter

Julkaisumaa: Saksa

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0037

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Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Kokonaan avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/67814

Tiivistelmä

We investigate transitivity prominence of verbs across signed and spoken languages, based on data from both valency dictionaries and corpora. Our methodology relies on the assumption that dictionary data and corpus-based measures of transitivity are comparable, and we find evidence in support of this through the direct comparison of these two types of data across several spoken languages. For the signed modality, we measure the transitivity prominence of verbs in five sign languages based on corpus data and compare the results to the transitivity prominence hierarchy for spoken languages reported in Haspelmath (2015). For each sign language, we create a hierarchy for 12 verb meanings based on the proportion of overt direct objects per verb meaning. We use these hierarchies to calculate correlations between languages – both signed and spoken – and find positive correlations between transitivity hierarchies. Additional findings of this study include the observation that locative arguments seem to behave differently than direct objects judging by our measures of transitivity, and that relatedness among sign languages does not straightforwardly imply similarity in transitivity hierarchies. We conclude that our findings provide support for a modality-independent, semantic basis of transitivity.

YSO-asiasanat: kielitiede; transitiivisuus (kielitiede); korpuslingvistiikka; viittomakieli; valenssi (kielitiede); typologiat

Vapaat asiasanat: transitivity; corpus linguistics; sign languages; valency; typology

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OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2019

JUFO-taso: 1