TY  - RPRT
A1  - Bickel, Balthasar
T1  - A general method for the statistical evaluation of typological distributions
N2  - The distribution of linguistic structures in the world is the joint product of universal principles, inheritance from ancestor languages, language contact, social structures, and random fluctuation. This paper proposes a method for evaluating the relative significance of each factor — and in particular, of universal principles — via regression modeling: statistical evidence for universal principles is found if the odds for families to have skewed responses (e.g. all or most members have postnominal relative clauses) as opposed to having an opposite response skewing or no skewing at all, is significantly higher for some condition (e.g. VO order) than for another condition, independently of other factors.
KW  - Sprachliche Universalien
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/15116
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1160513
UR  - http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/research/papers/testing_universals_bickel2008.pdf
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Leipzig
ER  -