The Use of Databases in Cross-Linguistic Studies /

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

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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 m...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (409 p.) :; Figs. and tabs
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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

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