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Márton Sóskuthy visits the HUN-REN Research Centre for Linguistics as an MTA Visiting Research Fellow

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Borbély Anna Pro Cultura Minoritatum Hungariae díjat vehetett át

<div rehype-wrapper="true"><span></span><p>Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation is a famous statistical pattern whereby frequent words tend to be shorter than infrequent ones. Large-scale studies have found this pattern both in multi-billion word collections of texts from well-resourced languages (e.g. Piantadosi et al. 2010), as well as smaller collections of texts from close to a thousand languages (Bentz et al. 2016). And yet there are still glaring gaps in our knowledge of the fine details and origins of this pattern. This talk attempts fill these gaps through a careful investigation of the pattern in a historical corpus of English (COHA) supplemented by statistical and computational modelling.</p><p>The first case study looks at how the law of abbreviation seems to hold relatively stable over a period of 150 years in written texts at a large scale, while varying substantially across genres and parts of speech. A general pattern is that the law is stronger in genres that are closer to spoken language, which will be verified by testing two additional corpora of scripted and spontaneous spoken language. The second case study looks at how referring forms shift in response to changes in the frequency of the underlying concept (e.g. plane overtaking airplane as the frequency of the concept increases). This resource-intensive study uses LLMs to disambiguate words in context (e.g. plane ‘surface’ vs. plane ‘flying vehicle’) and a Monte Carlo resampling method to find non-trivial correlations between time series. A key finding is that the length of referring forms adapts to the frequency of the concept when that frequency increases, but does not show changes otherwise. Finally, I present simulation results that show how Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation may emerge in a simple model of communication even in the absence of any explicit pressure for short forms to be prioritised in frequent contexts.</p><p>Zoom: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85250575838?pwd=M21okObuBY0UjWZgED4b18ms2O4JXr.1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85250575838?pwd=M21okObuBY0UjWZgED4b18ms2O4JXr.1</a></p></div>

Sóskuthy Márton

Lexical shifts in the emergence of Zipf’s Law of Abbreviation in English

<div rehype-wrapper="true"><span></span><p>Közismert, hogy az i.e. II. évezredi ókori keleti szövegekben számos indoárja (vagy annak tűnő) névvel és szóval találkozni. Máig nincs kielégítő magyarázat arra, hogyan kerültek ezek Indiától ilyen messzire, jóval az óind legkorábbi fázisa előtt. A hagyományos elképzelés szerint a korai indoárjákról levált egy csoport, átvándorolt egész Délnyugat-Ázsián, majd kiaknázván a harci szekereikből fakadó katonai fölényüket, szak-Szíriában meghódították a hurri nyelvet beszélő helyi lakosságot, és azok katonai elitjét alkotva létrehozták Mittani államát, amelyhez ezen nyelvemlékek elsősorban kötődnek. Bár az ókori keleti kutatásban ennek az elképzelésnek szinte minden pontját megcáfolták már majdnem két évtizede, az ókori keleti indoárja nyelvi anyag jelenlétére az ókori Kelet kutatói sem tudtak magyarázatot adni. Jelen előadásban bemutatom, hogy egy kritikai áttekintés után milyen nyelvi anyag marad fenn egyáltalán és milyen szociolingvisztikai magyarázatokat enged meg ez az anyag.</p></div>

Simon Zsolt

Indoárja nyelvemlékek az ókori Keleten. Régi kérdések, új válaszok

<div rehype-wrapper="true"><span></span><h4>Meeting Description</h4><p>As a sequel to the successful International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification 2024, the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics will host the 2<sup>nd</sup> International Workshop on the Syntax of Predication and Modification (IWSPM2025) in Budapest, Hungary, on 1–2 September 2025. IWSPM2025 will be an in-person-only event. Like its predecessor, this workshop seeks to foster fruitful dialogue between researchers through syntactic analyses of construction types involving predication and modification, from a wide range of languages and analytical perspectives. kk</p><buttons data-buttons="buttons" data-justification="left" data-orientation="horizontal" data-nytud="true"><button style="width:25%;border-radius:4px;background-color:#276198;color:#ffffff" data-button="button" data-nytud="true"><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/syntax_workshop_program2025_v2.pdf">Program</a></button></buttons><h4>Questions Central to the Workshop</h4><ul><li>What are the syntactic configurations for predication and modification?</li><li>Can the syntactic configurations for predication and modification be unified? If not, what is it that necessitates syntactic differentiation between predication and modification?</li><li>Is there synchronic cross-linguistic variation in the syntax of predication and modification? If so, what is this syntactic variation rooted in?</li><li>Is there a diachronic evolution of the syntax of predication and modification? If so, what has enabled the syntax of predication and modification to evolve in this way/these ways?</li></ul><h4>Keynote Speakers</h4><ul><li>senior invited speaker: Hideki Kishimoto (Kobe University, Japan)</li><li>junior invited speaker: Andrea Szávó (University of Debrecen, Hungary)</li></ul><h4>Call for Papers</h4><p>For IWSPM2025, we invite submissions of abstracts for 25-minute presentations (followed by 10-minute discussion) on any topic in the syntax of predication and modification and/or its interface with semantics. We especially welcome submissions addressing questions from a formal syntactic perspective. Abstracts should not identify the author, and may not exceed two pages (A4 with 2.5 cm margins or US letter with 1 inch margins on all sides), including examples, references and tables/figures. Fonts should be no smaller than 12-point Times New Roman. The top of the first page should include the title of the paper and, on a separate text line, up to 5 keywords. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF via the workshop E-mail address: iwspm2025@nytud.hun-ren.hu.</p><h4>Important Dates</h4><p>Abstract submission deadline: 2 May, 2025</p><p>Notification of acceptance: 1 June, 2025</p><p>Meeting Dates: 1–2 September, 2025</p><h4>Important websites</h4><p>abstract submission: <a href="mailto:iwspm2025@nytud.hun-ren.hu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iwspm2025@nytud.hun-ren.hu</a></p><p>homepage of IWSPM2025: <a href="https://nytud.hun-ren.hu/en/event/2nd-international-workshop-on-the-syntax-of-predication-and-modification-2">https://nytud.hun-ren.hu/en/event/2nd-international-workshop-on-the-syntax-of-predication-and-modification-2</a></p><p>homepage of IWSPM2024: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/iwspm2024/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://sites.google.com/view/iwspm2024/home</a></p><h4>Contact</h4><p>For inquiries about the workshop, please contact one of the workshop conveners (Marcel den Dikken and Éva Dékány) via the workshop E-mail address (<a href="mailto:iwspm2025@nytud.hun-ren.hu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iwspm2025@nytud.hun-ren.hu</a>).</p></div>

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