FYI: APiCS typology questionnaire

[Martin Haspelmath]

Four your information:

LINGTYP readers may be interested in a follow-up project to WALS (the 
World Atlas of Language Structures, http://wals.info):

*The Atlas of Pidgin And Creole Language Structures* (APiCS, see 
http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/apics)

This project gathers information on 120 grammatical features plus 
phonological segments from experts on pidgin and creole languages. To 
make it easy for the contributors to provide us with the data (that will 
eventually be published online, like the WALS data), we created a 
detailed questionnaire in the form of a FileMaker Pro runtime file 
(which can be downloaded for free from 
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~taylor/apics/). But the complete questionnaire 
is also available directly for online browsing 
(http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/apics/index.php/APiCS_Questionnaire).

The questionnaire was specifically designed to answer questions of 
particular relevance to pidgin and creole languages, but it can in 
principle be applied to any language. In addition to its main purpose, 
it may be useful to fieldworkers, because each of the 120 features 
described an area where languages typically differ, so a comprehensive 
grammar of a language should ideally contain complete information on all 
these parameters of variation.

Greetings from the APiCS editors,
Martin Haspelmath, Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Magnus Huber

-- 
Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de)
Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher Platz 6	
D-04103 Leipzig      
Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616

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