31.1389, FYI: New version of eWAVE The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

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Subject: 31.1389, FYI:  New version of eWAVE The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 13:49:50
From: Katharina Ehret [kehret at sfu.ca]
Subject: New version of eWAVE The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English

 
Dear colleagues,

a new, updated version of The Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English,
eWAVE 3.0 is now available online!

eWAVE was originally designed and compiled at the Freiburg Institute for
Advanced Studies (FRIAS) and the English Department of the University of
Freiburg, Germany, primarily between 2008 and 2011, when it was first
released. eWAVE is an interactive database on morphosyntactic variation in
spontaneous spoken English mapping 235 features from a dozen domains of
grammar in now 51 varieties of English (traditional dialects, high-contact
mother-tongue Englishes, and indigenized second-language Englishes) and 26
English-based Pidgins and Creoles in eight Anglophone world regions (Africa,
Asia, Australia, British Isles, Caribbean, North America, Pacific, and the
South Atlantic, ...). eWAVE was partly designed and entirely programmed in
collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
(Leipzig), and is also hosted by the MPI.

The new version comprises an additional variety of English, i.e. Croker Island
English, and thus counts 77 Englishes spoken around the world. It is the
largest available database of English varieties up to date.

eWAVE 3.0 also includes new bibliographic references and examples. Some values
for the various morphosyntactic features have been updated based on a survey
among the 84 eWAVE contributors. Most notably, there have been substantial
changes in the feature ratings of Kenyan English.

The new version of eWAVE also contains Glottocodes for 65 of the 77 varieties
based on the classification to be released with Glottolog 4.2. These codes
serve as unique and persistent identifiers and may facilitate computational
matching and retrieval of specific varieties, also across different databases.

The resource is open-access and available at: https://ewave-atlas.org/

All the best,

Bernd Kortmann and Katharina Ehret
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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