Online: Atlas Mundial de Estruturas Lingüísticas (ht tp://wals.info)

[Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro]

Aos que já receberam esta mensagem, minhas desculpas pela repetição.

Atenciosamente,

Eduardo

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From: "Martin Haspelmath" <haspelmath at EVA.MPG.DE>
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 5:28 AM
Subject: WALS is online! (http://wals.info)


> Through a joint effort of the Max Planck Digital Library and the 
> Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary 
> Anthropology, all the data and analytical texts from The World Atlas of 
> Language Structures are now freely available online ("WALS Online"), at 
> http://wals.info. The materials are published under a Creative Commons 
> License, guaranteeing open access for users and inviting scientists to use 
> them for their work.
>
> The site shows data on over 2500 languages, for which more than 6500 
> references have been used. Searching and browsing is possible by 
> structural feature, by language name or language family, by reference and 
> by author. The analytical texts contain links to all the references and 
> all the languages. The maps can be shown at any zoom level, and the map 
> symbols can be displayed in various shapes and colours. A wide range of 
> export options is available.
>
> As in the book version from 2005, all languages are equal in WALS Online: 
> each language, regardless of number of speakers, is represented on the map 
> by the same circular symbol. For linguists, small and endangered languages 
> threatened with imminent extinction are fully as interesting as large 
> national languages.
>
> WALS Online provides information on a vast range of structural variables: 
> number of consonants (from 6 to 122), presence of rare sounds like ö and 
> ü, tone systems, gender categories, plural formation, number of cases, 
> verbal future and past forms, imperatives, word order, passives, numerals, 
> colour terms, writing systems, and more.
>
> Links:
> WALS Online: http://wals.info
> MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology: http://www.eva.mpg.de/
> Department of Linguistics: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/
> Max Planck Digital Library: http://www.mpdl.mpg.de 

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