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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Language Typology

Background:

  • Differential case marking, the variation in how grammatical roles like Agent (A) and Patient (P) are marked, is often explained by linguistic efficiency and markedness theories.
  • Previous explanations lack empirical testing across diverse languages and probabilistic frameworks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically test the predictions of efficiency (cue reliability) and markedness (cue availability) accounts of differential case marking.
  • To determine which probabilistic measure best accounts for observed cross-linguistic patterns in case marking.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized conditional probabilities: cue availability (feature given syntactic role) and cue reliability (syntactic role given feature).
  • Estimated probabilities from spontaneous informal dialogues in five diverse languages: English, Russian, Lao, N||ng, and Ruuli.
  • Employed mixed-effects Poisson models for statistical analysis.

Main Results:

  • Cue reliability, central to the efficiency account, demonstrated a stronger correlation with observed cross-linguistic patterns.
  • Cue availability, a measure of markedness, was less successful in predicting the observed patterns.
  • Probabilistic analysis revealed that efficiency-based factors are more influential in shaping differential case marking.

Conclusions:

  • The findings provide strong support for the efficiency (economy) account of differential case marking.
  • Language structure appears to be shaped by principles favoring reliability in grammatical cues over mere availability.
  • This study offers a quantitative, cross-linguistic perspective on a fundamental linguistic phenomenon.