LINEAR ORDER AS A PREDICTOR OF WORD ORDER REGULARITIES

Michael Cysouw ()
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Michael Cysouw: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), 2008, vol. 11, issue 03, pages 415-420

Abstract: This is a reply to Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho's paper in this issue "Some Word Order Biases from Limited Brain Resources: A Mathematical Approach." In this reply, I challenge the Euclidean distance model proposed in that paper by proposing a simple alternative model based on linear ordering.

Keywords: Linear order; word order; language universals; human language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008

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