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dc.contributor.authorBörstell, Carl
dc.contributor.authorJantunen, Tommi
dc.contributor.authorKimmelman, Vadim
dc.contributor.authorDe Lint, Vanja
dc.contributor.authorMesch, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorOomen, Marloes
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-06T08:13:52Z
dc.date.available2020-04-06T08:13:52Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-31
dc.PublishedBörstell C, Jantunen T, Kimmelman V, De Lint V, Mesch J, Oomen M. Transitivity prominence within and across modalities. Open Linguistics. 2019;5:666-689eng
dc.identifier.issn2300-9969
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/21691
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherDe Gruytereng
dc.rightsAttribution CC BYeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/eng
dc.subjecttransitivityeng
dc.subjectcorpus linguisticseng
dc.subjectsign languageseng
dc.subjectvalencyeng
dc.subjecttypologyeng
dc.titleTransitivity prominence within and across modalitieseng
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.date.updated2020-02-11T19:18:54Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2019 The Author(s)eng
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0037
dc.identifier.cristin1793243
dc.source.journalOpen Linguistics


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