Welsh grammatical gender exhibits several unusual properties. This paper argues that these properties are necessarily connected. The argument is based on a series of corpus investigations using techniques from statistical natural language processing, specifically distinguishing properties that exhibit significant statistical patterns from those which can be used to make useable predictions. Specifically, it’s shown that the grammatical properties of Welsh gender are such that its unusual statistical properties follow.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/621926 |
| Date | 01 January 2016 |
| Creators | Hammond, Michael |
| Contributors | Univ Arizona, Dept Linguist |
| Publisher | DE GRUYTER MOUTON |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Rights | Copyright © 2015, Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
| Relation | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cllt.2016.12.issue-2/cllt-2015-0001/cllt-2015-0001.xml |
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