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.

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instanceOf linguistic database
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
morphological features
phonetic features
phonological features
syntactic features
coverage worldwide
dataSource published grammatical descriptions
reference grammars
editor Bernard Comrie NERFINISHED
David Gil NERFINISHED
Martin Haspelmath NERFINISHED
Matthew S. Dryer NERFINISHED
field comparative linguistics
language typology
linguistics
focus cross-linguistic comparison
language structures
structural features of languages
hasFormat online
print
hasMapType feature maps
language distribution maps
hasPart WALS Online NERFINISHED
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
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology NERFINISHED
Oxford University Press
shortName WALS NERFINISHED
subjectOf language typology research
usedFor cross-linguistic comparison of grammatical features
mapping structural features of languages
statistical studies of language diversity
testing linguistic universals
website https://wals.info

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Martin Haspelmath notableWork World Atlas of Language Structures
Martin Haspelmath notableWork World Atlas of Language Structures
this entity surface form: The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Martin Haspelmath coEditorOf World Atlas of Language Structures
Martin Haspelmath coEditorOf World Atlas of Language Structures
this entity surface form: The World Atlas of Language Structures Online