I did once (arxiv.org/pdf/2311.18567) if you count this as compling paper (and not NLP). I know my coauthor Ryan has continued thinking about Judea Pearl style causality more afterwards too probably.

Like gen1 may just be comitative. Which also had me doubting whether he1 really corresponds to 'and' either... but i suspect Haspelmath has tests or at least refs to some in that link.

I stared trying to construct an argument that maybe mandarin differentiates NP (he2) and DP (gen1) conjunction. Then I tried to think about basic coordination of mandarin VPs (may only be periphrastic)... so perhaps this is a next reasonable place to point you to instead:
wals.info/chapter/64

Nice! Might this shed some light on unnatural language processing effects? Thinking of older work I was doing with @koustuvsinha.com. We found examples where word reordering causing ungrammaticality could improve classifier results, and much discussion followed. Could be fun to think these together!

I agree this thread's headline claim seems premature. Let me add our recent ACL Findings paper, with Dexter Ju and @hagenblix.bsky.social, which found syntactic simplification in at least some LMs, in a novel domain regeneration setting: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

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