World Atlas of Language Structures
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The World Atlas of Language Structures is a large-scale, comparative database and reference work that maps structural features of languages around the world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The World Atlas of Language Structures Online | 2 |
| World Atlas of Language Structures canonical | 2 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
linguistic database
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online database ⓘ reference work ⓘ typological database ⓘ |
| aim | to provide a comprehensive survey of structural properties of the world’s languages ⓘ |
| citation | Haspelmath, Dryer, Gil & Comrie (eds.) 2005, The World Atlas of Language Structures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsDataType |
lexical features
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morphological features ⓘ phonetic features ⓘ phonological features ⓘ syntactic features ⓘ |
| coverage | worldwide ⓘ |
| dataSource |
published grammatical descriptions
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reference grammars ⓘ |
| editor |
Bernard Comrie
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David Gil NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Haspelmath NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew S. Dryer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
comparative linguistics
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language typology ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| focus |
cross-linguistic comparison
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language structures ⓘ structural features of languages ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online
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print ⓘ |
| hasMapType |
feature maps
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language distribution maps ⓘ |
| hasPart |
WALS Online
NERFINISHED
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printed atlas ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| methodology | feature-based coding of languages ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 142 ⓘ |
| numberOfFeatures | 192 GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfLanguagesCovered | over 2600 GENERATED ⓘ |
| onlineLaunchYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Max Planck Digital Library
NERFINISHED
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxford University Press ⓘ |
| shortName | WALS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | language typology research ⓘ |
| usedFor |
cross-linguistic comparison of grammatical features
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mapping structural features of languages ⓘ statistical studies of language diversity ⓘ testing linguistic universals ⓘ |
| website | https://wals.info ⓘ |
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The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
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The World Atlas of Language Structures Online