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The Holographic Principle: Typological analysis using lower dimensions
Merchant, Nazarré; Krämer, Martin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)A moderately complex factorial typology may consist of tens or hundreds of languages which can opaquely encode linguistically salient categories and generalizations. We propose in this paper that these complex typologies can be decomposed and understood using what we call the holographic principle: a large typology can be projected onto simplified versions of itself which can be completely ...