The grammaticalization cycle of the progressive: A game-theoretic analysis

被引：6

作者：

Mühlenbernd R. ^{[1
]}

Enke D. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wilhelmstr. 19, Tübingen

[2] Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schellingstr. 3, Munich

来源：

Morphology | 2017年 / 27卷 / 4期

基金：

欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

Evolutionary dynamics; Game theory; Morpho-semantic change; Progressive cycle; Reinforcement learning;

D O I：

10.1007/s11525-017-9310-2

中图分类号：

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摘要：

A well-attested phenomenon in morpho-semantic change is known as the progressive cycle, which depicts a directed and cyclic pathway of a grammatical progressive marker through its emergence and disappearance inside the imperfective domain. Deo (2015) offers a model within the framework of evolutionary game theory to study the evolutionary dynamics of four preselected types of progressive-imperfective grammars. Based on her basic game-theoretic model, we investigate which types of grammars would emerge from the first principles in a population of agents under reinforcement learning. In our computational model, the actual progressive-imperfective cycle can be reconstructed from such atomic interactions between learner agents after the addition of several simple assumptions to the basic game-theoretic model. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

引用

页码：497 / 526

页数：29

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