[CreoleTalk] APiCS Online released

[Gavin Furukawa]

Hi Kent,

Here's that site I showed you.

Gavin

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Gavin K. Furukawa
Moore 477
PhD Candidate (ABD),
Second Language Studies Department,

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Editorial Assistant, Language Learning


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:44 AM, PAUL B GARRETT <pgarrett at temple.edu> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> From: Susanne Michaelis <michaelis at eva.mpg.de>
> Date: Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:06 PM
> Subject: [CreoleTalk] APiCS Online released
> To: CreoleTalk <CreoleTalk at yahoogroups.com>
>
>
> 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, http://wals.info), 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> <michaels at eva.mpg.de>
> Philippe Maurer <phil.maurer at bluewin.ch> <phil.maurer at bluewin.ch>
> Martin Haspelmath <haspelmt at eva.mpg.de> <haspelmt at eva.mpg.de>, and
> Magnus Huber <Magnus.Huber at anglistik.uni-giessen.de><
> Magnus.Huber at anglistik.uni-giessen.de>
> Leipzig, Zurich and Giessen
>
> --
> Susanne Maria Michaelis
> Department of Linguistics
> Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie
> Deutscher Platz 6
> D-04103 Leipzig
>
> Fon +49-341-3550317
> Fax +49-341-3550333
>
> e-mail: michaelis[AT]eva.mpg.dehttp://
> www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/michaelis/home.php
>
> Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS)
> http://apics-online.info
>