APiCS Online released

[Susanne Michaelis]

We are happy to announce the release of APiCS Online, the freely 
available online version of the Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language 
Structures:

http://apics-online.info/


The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS), edited by 
Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus 
Huber, and published by Oxford University Press 
<http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199677702.do#.UVC734URInE>, 
shows the distribution of 130 structural features in 76 pidgin, creole 
and other mixed languages. It was inspired by WALS (the World Atlas of 
Language Structures), and 48 of the features are the same in both 
atlases, allowing comparison of contact languages with the world's 
languages. Datasets on the 76 languages were contributed by language 
experts on the basis of a detailed questionnaire, and checked thoroughly 
for consistency by the editors.


APiCS Online also contains references for each datapoint, as well as a 
large number of fully glossed examples, often from naturally occurring 
texts. There is also additional information on phonological segments and 
sociolinguistic features. (The APiCS book in addition contains text 
chapters for each of the 130 features, written by the editors, as in 
WALS. These text chapters are not available online, at least not yet.)


The APiCS Online application was developed by Robert Forkel as part of 
the CLLD project (http://clld.org/), and published by the Max Planck 
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Enjoy!


Susanne Maria Michaelis <michaels at eva.mpg.de> <mailto:michaels at eva.mpg.de>
Philippe Maurer <phil.maurer at bluewin.ch> <mailto:phil.maurer at bluewin.ch>
Martin Haspelmath <haspelmt at eva.mpg.de> <mailto:haspelmt at eva.mpg.de>, and
Magnus Huber<Magnus.Huber at anglistik.uni-giessen.de> 
<mailto:Magnus.Huber at anglistik.uni-giessen.de>

Leipzig, Zurich and Giessen

-- 
Susanne Maria Michaelis
Department of Linguistics
Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie
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D-04103 Leipzig

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Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)
http://apics-online.info

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