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This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research. It has become increasingly clear that ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to m...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2009] ©2009 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Empirical approaches to language typology [ealt] ;
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| Summary: |
This book promotes the development of linguistic databases by describing a number of successful database projects, focusing especially on cross-linguistic and typological research. It has become increasingly clear that ready access to knowledge about cross-linguistic variation is of great value to many types of linguistic research. Such a systematic body of data is essential in order to gain a proper understanding of what is truly universal in language and what is determined by specific cultural settings. Moreover, it is increasingly needed as a tool to systematically evaluate contrasting theoretical claims. The book includes a chapter on general problems of using databases to handle language data and chapters on a number of individual projects. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(409pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110198744 |
| Index Number: | P128 |
| CLC: | H087 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Designing linguistic databases: A primer for linguists -- A typological database of personal and demonstrative pronouns -- Databases designed for investigating specific phenomena -- How to integrate databases without starting a typology war: The Typological Database System -- A contribution to two-dimensional language description: the Typological Database of Intensifiers and Reflexives -- StressTyp: A database for word accentual patterns in the world s languages -- The typological database of the World Atlas of Language Structures -- Typology of reduplication: The Graz database -- The Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) database -- A database on personal pronouns in African languages -- Backmatter |