For about 300 years, scientific language takes its distance in respect to ordinary language, just because the latter is no longer able to face the requirements of rigor and precision of the former. In these conditions, it could look strange to make of imprecision a goal of scientific investigation. The explanation of this paradox is that there is no precise definition of precision, while the di...

1. DEFINING A LINGUISTIC AREA IN “CENTRAL/EASTERN INDONESIA.” In her Rejoinder to Malcolm Ross’s squib, Klamer (2003) addresses Ross’s critique of her 2002 article, Typical features of Austronesian languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia, stating that, rather than attempting to present a rubric for evaluating genetic relatedness, the article was intended to describe a set of grammatical features...

In this paper we announce the release of ISI’s QA Typology, which is being made available on the web to support the rapid construction of new QA systems. The Typology has been augmented with surface-level patterns associated with answer types, allowing systems to locate answers of the desired type in text by simple string matching. These patterns are extracted from the web automatically. We des...

The paper is focused on a systematic classification of assimilatory processes found in connected speech. It gives a complex typology of assimilations based on 17 different analytical perspectives yielding almost 60 different assimilation types. In addition to offering a detailed catalogue of assimilation processes occurring in connected speech, the typology may also be used as a tool for analyz...

Linguistic Typology 11 (2007), 285–296 1430–0532/2007/011-0285 DOI 10.1515/LINGTY.2007.023 ©Walter de Gruyter In these remarks on the relationship between typology and theoretical (morpho)syntax, we touch briefly on three issues: what is their relationship in practice now, what relationship should one in principle expect given the founding goals of each enterprise, and what kind of research cou...

– describe the patterns of interpretation and outline the emerging typology involved in relating: (i) various kinds of distributive quantifiers and (ii) various kinds of distributivity-dependent items – formally capture these patterns and typology in a logical system that involves: (i) fine-grained, structured contexts of evaluation that distributivity-dependent items are sensitive to (ii) a fa...

Abstract Based on Yammarino and Atwater’s self-other agreement typology of leaders, we explored whether leaders’ followers’ influenced their ratings leadership behaviors after training where leaders received multi-source feedback to stimulate behavior change. We used a prospective study design including 68 237 followers from Swedish forest industry company. Leaders underwent increase transforma...

Ergativity refers to patterning in a language whereby the subject of a transitive clause behaves differently to the subject of an intransitive clause, which behaves like the object of a transitive clause. Ergativity can be manifested in morphology, lexicon, syntax, and discourse organisation. This article overviews what is known about ergativity in the world’s languages, with a particular focus...