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<br /></br><hr /><b>Recursos lingüísticos: </b><br />The World
Atlas of Language Structures Online<br /><b>URL:</b> <a
href="http://wals.info/index"
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p> The World Atlas of Language
Structures Online (WALS) is a large database of structural
(phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered
from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of
more than 40 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the
subject).<br /><br />WALS consists of 141 maps with accompanying texts
on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive
order, passive constructions, and "hand"/"arm" polysemy), each of
which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors).
Each map shows between 120 and 1370 languages, each language being
represented by a symbol, and different symbols showing different
values of the feature. Altogether 2,650 languages are shown on the
maps, and more than 58,000 datapoints give information on features in
particular languages.<br /><br />WALS thus makes information on the
structural diversity of the world's languages available to a large
audience, including interested nonlinguists as well as linguists who
would not normally read grammars of exotic languages or specialized
works by comparative linguists. Although endangered languages are not
particularly emphasized, they are automatically foregrounded because
of the large sample of languages represented on each map, where each
language (independently of its number of speakers) is shown by a
single symbol.</p><br /><b>Área temática:</b> Tipología<br /><br
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