3 papers
cs.CL2025
Are most sentences unique? An empirical examination of Chomskyan claims
Hiram Ring
A repeated claim in linguistics is that the majority of linguistic utterances are unique. For example, Pinker (1994: 10), summarizing an argument by Noam Chomsky, states that "virt…
cs.CL2025
Extending dependencies to the taggedPBC: Word order in transitive clauses
Hiram Ring
The taggedPBC (Ring 2025a) contains more than 1,800 sentences of pos-tagged parallel text data from over 1,500 languages, representing 133 language families and 111 isolates. While…
cs.CL2025
The taggedPBC: Annotating a massive parallel corpus for crosslinguistic investigations
Hiram Ring
Existing datasets available for crosslinguistic investigations have tended to focus on large amounts of data for a small group of languages or a small amount of data for a large nu…