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This project investigates the relationship between language structure and usage patterns across different languages. It aims to demonstrate that frequently used meanings are expressed through shorter forms, revealing insights into the efficiency of language and the mechanisms driving language change.
This project will document and explain a substantial number of grammatical universals by demonstrating a link between cross-linguistic patterns of language form and general trends of language use.
The claim is that frequently expressed meanings tend to be expressed by short forms, not only at the level of words, but also throughout the grammars of languages around the world (form-frequency correspondences). A simple example is the asymmetry in the coding of present-tense forms and future-tense f…
UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
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