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2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
On the Probability Distribution of Typological Frequencies
verfasst von : Michael Cysouw
Erschienen in: The Mathematics of Language
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Some language types are more frequent among the world’s languages than others, and the field of linguistic typology attempts to elucidate the reasons for such differences in type frequency. However, there is no consensus in that field about the stochastic processes that shape these frequencies, and there is thus likewise no agreement about the expected probability distribution of typological frequencies. This paper explains the problem and presents a first attempt to build a theory of typological probability purely based on processes of language change.