The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is making this increasingly possible. <br><br>However, it should be noted that absence from WALS might just mean that the typologist could not access the sources, or the language has the feature but it just has not been noticed or described yet. <br>
<br>I suspect that for a very long time to come presence in typological work will be more informative than absence.<br><br>Joseph<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 December 2011 19:27, Colin Masica <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dacotah@mwt.net">dacotah@mwt.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I am surprised this hasn't been done.<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Colin Masica</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:08 PM, E. Bashir wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Not a silly question at all, I think. Such statistics would be very interesting.</span></div><div>
<span>Elena Bashir<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" target="_blank">LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:42 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Languages considered in typologcial research<br> </font> <br> <div> <div> Dear friends,<br> just a short (and maybe silly?) question: Is anybody aware of some kind of statistics that considers to which extent the individual languages of the world are dealt with in the typological literature? It would be interesting to see where (and why !) there are both lacunae and statistic 'peaks'. The issue could be refined if one includes the classical linguistics domains such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics etc. Such a "World Atlas of Linguistics Data" (just to give it a name) would not only help motivating researchers to fill up lacunae, but also help understanding what the reasons may be for certain preferences...<br>
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