Universal Dependencies and Quantitative Typological Trends. A Case Study on Word Order (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | a new method is proposed to acquire typological evidence from "gold" treebanks for different languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for acquiring typological evidence from "gold" treebanks for different languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method can shed light on key issues of the linguistic typological literature. |
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