Using Model-Theoretic Approaches to Uncover Linguistic Organization

2024/05/13 by Olivia Griffin, Griffin, Olivia, Jerry Chih‐Yuan Sun +1
Arts and Humanities · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #linguistics and terminology studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.07597

openalex publication_date 2024/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this paper, we consider pluractional markers in Kaqchikel, Karuk, and Yurok. Like Balinese, each of these languages marks one type of pluractionality via reduplication, and a different type of pluractionality via non-reduplicative affixation. This paper serves as a proof-of-concept for applying model-theoretic approaches to language as a lens that can help us to recognize linguistic organization that is not apparent on the surface.

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