Title: The typological database of the World Atlas of Language Structures
Abstract: The World Atlas of Language Structures (often abbreviated as WALS) is primarily a book with 142 world maps showing the global distribution of structural features of language. It was put together by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology between 1999 and 2004, and published by Oxford University Press in July 2005 (Haspelmath et al. 2005). Over forty authors contributed to it, each structural feature (and thus each map) being the responsibility of a single author or team of authors. A sample map is shown in Figure 1.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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