Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20
E681824
"Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20" is a linguistics work by Guglielmo Cinque that offers a theoretical account of cross-linguistic word order patterns in noun phrases, particularly the ordering of demonstratives, numerals, and adjectives.
All labels observed (1)
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| Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7690424 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20 Context triple: [Guglielmo Cinque, hasNotableWork, Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20]
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General and Rational Grammar
General and Rational Grammar is a 17th-century French linguistic treatise from the Port-Royal school that seeks to explain the universal, rational principles underlying all human languages.
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B.
Principles and Parameters Theory
Principles and Parameters Theory is a framework in generative linguistics that explains how universal grammatical principles and language-specific parameter settings account for the diversity and acquisition of human languages.
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C.
Lectures on Government and Binding
Lectures on Government and Binding is a foundational book by Noam Chomsky that systematically presents the Government and Binding framework in generative syntax.
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D.
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics is a collected volume of influential articles by linguist Zellig Harris that helped shape the development of structural and early transformational approaches to language analysis.
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E.
Methods in Structural Linguistics
Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20 Target entity description: "Deriving Greenberg’s Universal 20" is a linguistics work by Guglielmo Cinque that offers a theoretical account of cross-linguistic word order patterns in noun phrases, particularly the ordering of demonstratives, numerals, and adjectives.
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A.
General and Rational Grammar
General and Rational Grammar is a 17th-century French linguistic treatise from the Port-Royal school that seeks to explain the universal, rational principles underlying all human languages.
-
B.
Principles and Parameters Theory
Principles and Parameters Theory is a framework in generative linguistics that explains how universal grammatical principles and language-specific parameter settings account for the diversity and acquisition of human languages.
-
C.
Lectures on Government and Binding
Lectures on Government and Binding is a foundational book by Noam Chomsky that systematically presents the Government and Binding framework in generative syntax.
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D.
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics
Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics is a collected volume of influential articles by linguist Zellig Harris that helped shape the development of structural and early transformational approaches to language analysis.
-
E.
Methods in Structural Linguistics
Methods in Structural Linguistics is a foundational 1951 work in linguistics that systematically develops the principles and procedures of structural (distributional) analysis of language.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
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| instanceOf |
linguistics article
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scholarly work ⓘ |
| arguesFor |
derivation of surface word orders from a single underlying hierarchy
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role of movement operations in deriving NP word orders ⓘ |
| author | Guglielmo Cinque NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Greenberg’s typological generalizations about NP word order ⓘ |
| claims | attested NP word orders follow from a universal base structure plus movement constraints ⓘ |
| concerns | demonstrative–numeral–adjective–noun orderings ⓘ |
| contributesTo | cartographic approach to syntax ⓘ |
| examines | possible and impossible NP word orders across languages ⓘ |
| field |
linguistics
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syntax ⓘ typology ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
cross-linguistic word order patterns in noun phrases
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ordering of demonstratives numerals and adjectives ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Joseph Greenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
Greenberg’s Universal 20
NERFINISHED
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functional projections in syntax ⓘ noun phrase structure ⓘ word order typology ⓘ |
| proposes | universal hierarchy of DP-internal modifiers ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
DP hypothesis
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Universal 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ noun phrase typology ⓘ |
| usesFramework |
cartographic syntax
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generative grammar ⓘ |
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