The use of databases in cross-linguistic studies
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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter
c2009.
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Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 41. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31458828*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.