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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In this article we propose a novel method to estimate the frequency distribution of linguistic variables while controlling for statistical non-independence due to shared ancestry. Unlike previous approaches, our technique uses all available data, from language families large and small as well as from isolates, while controlling for different degrees of
Gerhard Jäger, Johannes Wahle
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THE AIMS OF TYPOLOGIES AND A TYPOLOGY OF METHODS
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2023 Typologies like Ian Barbour's have been widely used—and critiqued—in religion‐and‐science. Several alternatives have been proposed by, for example, John Haught, Willem Drees, Mikael Stenmark, and Shoaib Ahmed Malik. However, there has been a surprising deficit in discussion of what we wish typologies to do in religion and science in the first place ...
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, 2020 AbstractThis chapter discusses a number of central phenomena in the typology of negation, building on state-of-the-art typological research. The focus lies on standard negation, prohibitive negation, existential negation, and the negation of indefinites.
Auwera, J. van der, Krasnoukhova, O.
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Typology, documentation, description, and typology [PDF]
Linguistic Typology, 2016 Typology, Documentation, Description, and Typology Marianne Mithun University of California, Santa Barbara Abstract If the goals of linguistic typology, are, as described by Plank (2016): (a) to chart linguistic diversity (b) to seek out order or even unity in diversity knowledge of the current state of the art is an invaluable tool for almost any ...
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Bubbles: towards a typology [PDF]
Foresight, 2013 PurposeBubbles – technology, stock market, housing, and more – have punctuated modern economic history with some regularity, and seem to be happening with greater frequency in recent periods. Part of the authors' larger work on a meta‐theory of bubbles, this paper aims to compare and contrast bubbles in the fields of entertainment, technology ...
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, 2016 The systematic arrangement of empirical evidence is the necessary premise of any archaeological enquiry. If the process that generated an observed pattern has to be investigated, archaeologists need to choose scales and units of analysis that are appropriate for their specific context and the relative research questions.
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Typological thinking: Then and now [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 2018 AbstractA popular narrative about the history of modern biology has it that Ernst Mayr introduced the distinction between “typological thinking” and “population thinking” to mark a contrast between a metaphysically problematic and a promising foundation for (evolutionary) biology, respectively.
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The American linguist E.Sapir is credited with establishing the foundations of new directions in morphological typology. The principal expression of E.Sapir’s linguistic views is to be found in his book Language, as well as in the articles “The Position of Linguistics as a Science” and “Language”.
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