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The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies / ed. by Martin Everaert, Simon Musgrave, Alexis Dimitriadis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 41Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (409 p.) : Figs. and tabsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110193084
  • 9783110198744
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410.285574 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P128.D37 U74 2009
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
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. 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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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

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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 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)

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