Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

In this paper, I investigate online film subtitles from a quantitative perspective, treating them
as a separate register of communication. Subtitles from films in English and other languages …

This chapter gives an overview of parallel corpora, ie corpora containing source texts in a
given language, aligned with their translations in another language. More specifically, it …

Today, performing automatic language analysis to extract meaning from natural language is
one of the top-notch directions in social science research, but it can be challenging …

The article starts with a brief review of current studies of perception verbs as a background to
the major part of the paper, which is devoted to a discussion of Phenomenon-based …

This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS)
techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical …

This paper investigates variation of lexical and analytic causatives in 15 European
languages from the Germanic, Romance, and Slavic genera based on a multilingual parallel …

We survey the predicative functions of reduplication and analyze the relationships between
them in terms of semantic affinity and iconicity. Forty-five functions are identified in 108 …

Both areal and phylogenetic affiliation have been discussed as driving factors of the
distribution of word order in the languages of the world. However, disentangling the …

Previous work on psych predicates has so far mostly focused on verbs and their non-
canonical argument structures within and across languages. In this study, we propose a …