Dependency direction as a means of word-order typology: A method based on dependency treebanks

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1567-1578

  Liu, Haitao ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence Production Technology and Systems   (China)

Author keywords

Dependency grammar; Head final; Head initial; Treebank; Word order typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950867145     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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