<s>
Lexicase	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
type	O
of	O
dependency	O
grammar	O
originally	O
developed	O
beginning	O
in	O
the	O
early	O
1970s	O
by	O
Stanley	O
Starosta	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Hawaii	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Dozens	O
of	O
Starosta	O
's	O
graduate	O
students	O
also	O
contributed	O
to	O
the	O
theory	O
and	O
wrote	O
at	O
least	O
20	O
doctoral	O
dissertations	O
using	O
Lexicase	B-General_Concept
to	O
analyze	O
numerous	O
languages	O
of	O
Asia	O
(	O
Japanese	O
,	O
Mandarin	O
,	O
Vietnamese	O
,	O
Thai	O
,	O
Khmer	O
,	O
Tagalog	O
,	O
etc	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Lexicase	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
monostratal	O
X-bar	O
grammar	O
(	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
Lexicase	B-General_Concept
,	O
words	O
have	O
features	O
that	O
determine	O
the	O
morphosyntactic	O
distribution	O
of	O
their	O
dependents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
primary	O
goal	O
of	O
Lexicase	B-General_Concept
is	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
simple	O
,	O
transparent	O
,	O
disprovable	O
means	O
of	O
testing	O
cross-linguistic	O
tendencies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
lexically	O
focused	O
theory	O
,	O
Lexicase	B-General_Concept
has	O
been	O
used	O
to	O
identify	O
verb	O
subcategories	O
in	O
Korean	O
,	O
Russian	O
,	O
Thai	O
,	O
and	O
Vietnamese	O
,	O
and	O
noun	O
subcategories	O
in	O
Khmer	O
and	O
Thai	O
and	O
to	O
provide	O
an	O
overall	O
language	O
description	O
of	O
Pacoh	O
in	O
central	O
Vietnam	O
.	O
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