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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bliss, Heather,; Brown, Dunstan,; Bíró, Tamás,; Chumakina, Marina,; Corbett, Greville,; Dimitriadis, Alexis,; Elšík, Viktor,; Everaert, Martin,; Gast, Volker,; Goedemans, Rob,; Haspelmath, Martin,; Hulst, Harry,; Hurch, Bernhard,; Krasovitsky, Alexander,; Matras, Yaron,; Mattes, Veronika,; Musgrave, Simon,; Ritter, Elizabeth,; Saulwick, Adam,; Segerer, Guillaume,; Tiberius, Carole,; White, Christopher,; Windhouwer, Menzo,
• HerausgeberIn: Dimitriadis, Alexis,; Everaert, Martin,; Musgrave, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 41
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (409 p.) :; Figs. and tabs

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.

Table of 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