Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
A feature commonly noted in tt?ological descriptions oflanguages fiom early times to the present has been their degree of qrrthesis, ttteir average number of mor-phemes per word, At one extreme ofthe synthesis continuum are aaa\\tic construc-tions, in which most words consist ofa single morpheme. An analltic structure is in (1) from Engenni, a Kwa language ofNigeria. (l) Analltic construction ftom Engenni (Thomas 1978:121) d ta ficwd 6fiu one go to seek house 'ktt go look for the house." At the other extreme are polyrynthetic constructions, in which words tlpically consist of large numbers of morphenes. An example of a more polysynthetic structure can be seen in (2) from Mohawk, an Iroquoian language of euebec, Ontario, and Nery York State.l (2) Polysprthetic constuction fiom Mohawk teninonhsihsdkha
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.017 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it