Sinnemäki Kaius, Haakana Viljami
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Linguist Vanguard. 2022 Oct 3;9(Suppl1):45-57. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2021-0074. eCollection 2023 May.
The interaction of morphosyntactic features has been of great interest in research on linguistic complexity. In this paper we approach such interactions in possessive noun phrases. First, we study the interaction of head marking and dependent marking in this domain with typological feature data and with multilingual corpus data. The data suggest that there is a clear inverse relationship between head and dependent marking in possessive noun phrases in terms of complexity. The result points to evidence on complexity trade-offs and to productive integration of typological and corpus-based approaches. Second, we explore whether zero versus overt morphological marking as a measure of morphological complexity affects dependency length as a measure of syntactic complexity. Data from multilingual corpora suggest that there is no cross-linguistic trend between these measures in possessive noun phrases.
形态句法特征的相互作用在语言复杂性研究中一直备受关注。在本文中,我们探讨所有格名词短语中的此类相互作用。首先,我们利用类型学特征数据和多语言语料库数据,研究该领域中中心语标记和从属语标记的相互作用。数据表明,就复杂性而言,所有格名词短语中的中心语标记和从属语标记之间存在明显的反比关系。这一结果为复杂性权衡提供了证据,并表明类型学方法和基于语料库的方法可以有效整合。其次,我们探究作为形态复杂性度量的零形态标记与显性形态标记是否会影响作为句法复杂性度量的依存长度。多语言语料库的数据表明,在所有格名词短语中,这些度量之间不存在跨语言趋势。