Languages considered in typologcial research
Colin Masica
dacotah at MWT.NET
Sat Dec 3 23:27:53 UTC 2011
I am surprised this hasn't been done.
Colin Masica
On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:08 PM, E. Bashir wrote:
> Not a silly question at all, I think. Such statistics would be
> very interesting.
> Elena Bashir
>
> From: Wolfgang Schulze <W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE>
> To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 11:42 AM
> Subject: Languages considered in typologcial research
>
> Dear friends,
> 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...
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
>
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