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A Typometrical Study of Greenberg’s Linguistic Universal 1

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Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions I, 20th International Conference (DCAI 2023)

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An interdisciplinary study that combines linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics to quantitatively review Greenberg’s Universal 1 is presented. By proposing new metrics and formalizations, we aim to provide a more accurate representation of language usage to solve the problem of basic word order in natural languages. A typological characterization of 143 languages is proposed. We perform a typometrical study using Universal Dependencies in order to quantitative evaluate new metrics. Our results show universal trends and can serve to categorize languages and to test universals with languages that have never been quantitatively checked.

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    S = Subject; V = Verb O = Object, NDO = Non-Dominant Order.

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  1. GRLMC-Research Group in Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

    Antoni Brosa-Rodríguez & M. Dolores Jiménez-López

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  1. High Performance Computing Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Rashid Mehmood

  2. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Victor Alves

  3. ISEP/GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Port, Porto, Portugal

    Isabel Praça

  4. Kielce University of Technology, Kielce, Poland

    Jarosław Wikarek

  5. BISITE, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Parra-Domínguez

  6. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Roussanka Loukanova

  7. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Ignacio de Miguel

  8. INESC-TEC and GECAD/ISEP, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

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  9. Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal

    Ricardo Nunes

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Brosa-Rodríguez, A., Jiménez-López, M.D. (2023). A Typometrical Study of Greenberg’s Linguistic Universal 1. In: Mehmood, R., et al. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions I, 20th International Conference. DCAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 741. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38318-2_19

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