Abstract This paper offers quantitative typological data to investigate a revised version of the Greenberg-Sanches-Slobin generalization (GSSG), which states that (a) a language is unlikely to have both sortal classifiers and morphosyntactic plural markers, and (b) if a language does have both, then their use is in complementary distribution. Morphosyntactic plurals engage in grammatical agreement outside the noun phrase, while morphosemantic plurals that relate to collective and associative marking do not. A database of 400 phylogenetically and geographically weighted languages was created to test this generalization. The statistical test of conditional inference trees was applied to investigate the effect of areal, phylogenetic, and linguistic factors on the distribution of classifiers and morphosyntactic plural markers. The results show that the presence of classifiers is affected by areal factors as most classifier languages are concentrated in Asia. Yet, the low ratio of languages with both features simultaneously is still statistically significant. Part (a) of the GSSG can thus be seen as a statistical universal. We then look into the few languages that do have both features and tentatively conclude that part (b) also seems to hold but further investigation into some of these languages is needed.

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Greenberg-Sanches-Slobin归纳的见解：分类器和复数标记的定量类型数据

摘要本文提供了定量的类型学数据来研究Greenberg-Sanches-Slobin概括（GSSG）的修订版，该修订版指出（a）一种语言不太可能同时具有类别分类符和词法复合复数标记，以及（b）如果没有语言确实具有两者，那么它们的使用是互补分布的。形态语法复数在名词短语之外参与语法约定，而与集体和联想标记有关的形态语义复数则没有。创建了包含400种系统发育和地理加权语言的数据库来测试这种概括。应用条件推理树的统计测试来研究区域，系统发生和语言因素对分类器和句法复合标记的分布的影响。结果表明，分类器的存在受区域因素的影响，因为大多数分类器语言都集中在亚洲。然而，同时具有两种功能的语言的比例仍然很低。因此，GSSG（a）部分可以被视为统计通用数据。然后，我们研究了同时具有这两种功能的几种语言，并初步得出结论，（b）部分似乎也成立了，但有必要进一步研究其中的某些语言。