Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Dear Matthew,

Interesting, and probably useful to some members. Thanks for the 
information. Next time, though, please comply with list rules and include 
your full name at the end of your post.


Yigal Levin
co-moderator
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anstey, Matthew" <MAnstey AT csu.edu.au>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:01 PM
Subject: [b-hebrew] WALS online


> Dear friends,
>
> Martin Haspelmath posted the following today.
>
> Through a joint effort of the Max Planck Digital Library and the
> Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
> Anthropology, all the data and analytical texts from The World Atlas of
> Language Structures are now freely available online ("WALS Online"), at
> http://wals.info. The materials are published under a Creative Commons
> License, guaranteeing open access for users and inviting scientists to
> use them for their work.
>
> The site shows data on over 2500 languages, for which more than 6500
> references have been used. Searching and browsing is possible by
> structural feature, by language name or language family, by reference
> and by author. The analytical texts contain links to all the references
> and all the languages. The maps can be shown at any zoom level, and the
> map symbols can be displayed in various shapes and colours. A wide range
> of export options is available.
>
> As in the book version from 2005, all languages are equal in WALS
> Online: each language, regardless of number of speakers, is represented
> on the map by the same circular symbol. For linguists, small and
> endangered languages threatened with imminent extinction are fully as
> interesting as large national languages.
>
> WALS Online provides information on a vast range of structural
> variables: number of consonants (from 6 to 122), presence of rare sounds
> like ö and ü, tone systems, gender categories, plural formation, number
> of cases, verbal future and past forms, imperatives, word order,
> passives, numerals, colour terms, writing systems, and more.
>
> Links:
> WALS Online: http://wals.info
> MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology: http://www.eva.mpg.de/
> Department of Linguistics: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/
> Max Planck Digital Library: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de
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