A Quantitative Study of Clauses in Modern Mongolian
This study investigates the validity of clause as a grammatical unit in Modem Mongolian.Based on a corpus of legal,literary,news,and political texts,this paper employs quantitative linguistic methods,specifically the Menzerath-Altmann law and sentence length distribution modeling,to test the hypothesis that a hierarchical structure of"sentence-clause-word"exists in Modem Mongolian.The results confirm this hypothesis,demonstrating the presence of clause as a distinct level within the Mongolian grammatical system.Additionally,in Modem Mongolian,the probability distribution of sentence length measured by the number of clauses conforms to the extended positive-negative binomial model.
Mongolian clausesquantitative researchlanguage hierarchyMenzerath-Altmann law
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