Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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"In this study, we improved the #methodology by teasing out two distinct measures: #fusion (how many #affixes #verbs and #nouns have) and informativity (how many distinctions are made)."
Yeesh. Regardless of the merits of the study, this is extremely poor framing, especially a #science #journalism article, as it's really just asking if #fusional #languages specifically are correlated with environment.
#linguistics #grammar #linguisticcomplexity #morphology
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-evolution-complex-grammars-grammatical-complexity.html
#Methodology #fusion #affixes #verbs #nouns #science #journalism #fusional #languages #linguistics #grammar #linguisticcomplexity #Morphology