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<p>Inspired by earlier work on typological profiling of English by Benedikt Szmrecsányi and Bernd Kortmann ([1], [2], [3]), this paper investigates the typological profiles of English, Spanish, German, and Slovak, applying Szmrecsányi and Kortmann’s methodology of calculating a SYNTHETICITY INDEX and an ANALYTICITY INDEX based on 1,000-word corpus samples. The results show that Szmrecsányi and Kortmann’s methodology is replicable, and confirm claims in the literature about degrees of analyticity and syntheticity of these languages. Instead of a simple analytic-synthetic continuum, Szmrecsányi and Kortmann’s “typological space” [3] is used to visualize results, showing that languages can be both synthetic and analytic to varying degrees.</p>
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Inspired by earlier work on typological profiling of English by Benedikt Szmrecsányi and Bernd Kortmann ([1], [2], [3]), this paper investigates the typological profiles of English, Spanish, German, and Slovak, applying Szmrecsányi and Kortmann’s methodology of calculating a SYNTHETICITY INDEX and an ANALYTICITY INDEX based on 1,000-word corpus samples. The results show that Szmrecsányi and Kortmann’s methodology is replicable, and confirm claims in the literature about degrees of analyticity and syntheticity of these languages. Instead of a simple analytic-synthetic continuum, Szmrecsányi and Kortmann’s “typological space” [3] is used to visualize results, showing that languages can be both synthetic and analytic to varying degrees.

Typological Profiling of English, Spanish, German and Slovak: A Corpus-Based Approach

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Inspired by earlier work on typological profiling of English by Benedikt Szmrecsányi and Bernd Kortmann ([1], [2], [3]), this paper investigates the...

Typological Profiling of English, Spanish, German and Slovak: A Corpus-Based Approach

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 342 - 352

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0032

Keywords
typological profiling, syntheticity index, analyticity index, typological space, English, German, Spanish, Slovak, corpus samples

© 2021 Jakob Horsch, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Typological Profiling of English, Spanish, German and Slovak: A Corpus-Based Approach

Published Online: Dec 30, 2021

Page range: 342 - 352

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0032

Keywordstypological profiling, syntheticity index, analyticity index, typological space, English, German, Spanish, Slovak, corpus samples

© 2021 Jakob Horsch, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
typological profiling, syntheticity index, analyticity index, typological space, English, German, Spanish, Slovak, corpus samples