The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies
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The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies

  1. 409 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies

About this book

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.

Note: This title was originally announced as including a CD-Rom with databases. The CD-Rom, however, was replaced by a list of URLs within the book. More information as well as links to the databases can also be found here.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Designing linguistic databases: A primer for linguists
  5. A typological database of personal and demonstrative pronouns
  6. Databases designed for investigating specific phenomena
  7. How to integrate databases without starting a typology war: The Typological Database System
  8. A contribution to ‘two-dimensional’ language description: the Typological Database of Intensifiers and Reflexives
  9. StressTyp: A database for word accentual patterns in the world’s languages
  10. The typological database of the World Atlas of Language Structures
  11. Typology of reduplication: The Graz database
  12. The Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) database
  13. A database on personal pronouns in African languages
  14. Backmatter