In:Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 356] 2021
► pp. 109–120
Grammar efficiency and the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle
Published online: 22 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.356.07vul
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.356.07vul
Abstract
The more a linguistic system departs from the One-Meaning–One-Form Principle, the less efficient it is. This notion is used to simplify the previous approach to the evaluation of grammar efficiency. The recently proposed measure of the departure from the Principle is revisited and its simplified version is included in the formula for grammar efficiency. The new and the old grammar-efficiency formulas are compared when applied to parts-of-speech systems as defined by Hengeveld. It is shown that the number of calculations is considerably reduced in the new formula, while the results obtained by the two approaches correlate well.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Measures of the degree of violation of the Principle
- 3.Hengeveld’s part-of-speech systems
- 4.The previous grammar-efficiency formula
- 5.The new grammar-efficiency formula
- 6.The efficiency of basic parts-of-speech system types
- 7.Conclusion
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