24 septembre 2018
Martin Haspelmath, « Cross-indexing is the most common type of subject expression in the world’s languages », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10670/1.beyokr
I recently saw an interesting article that asks about biases in evolutionary biology introduced by the fact that it is studied by humans. In linguistics, there is no shortage either of biases introduced by big languages such as Latin and English, and all linguists are at least aware of this possibility. But are we taking the potential problem seriously enough? I keep wondering about this, and I feel that a particularly egregious case is the idea that languages like Spanish have null subjects ...