[Lingtyp] Publication of the ATLAs typological database

[David Inman]

(With apologies for cross-posting.)

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new typological resource,
the Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database. The aim
of ATLAs is to capture areally relevant typological variation across North
and South America, together with a baseline sample from the rest of the
world. Our sample includes 325 languages worldwide, of which 220 are in the
Americas. For each typological domain present in the database, we have
attempted to encode as fine-grained features as possible, prioritizing
typological depth within a given domain over the inclusion of more domains.

The database is available as a website at http://atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch,
which presents 265 typological variables at the level of languages as a
whole. The data is also available on GitHub
<https://github.com/davidainman/atlas-data/>, and Zenodo
<https://zenodo.org/records/15227808>. The GitHub repository includes three
additional database modules not visible on the website, which exhaustively
encode at the construction level the phenomena of (1) nominal possession,
(2) morphological alignment, and (3) singular-plural verb stem alternation.
Several language-level aggregations of these more detailed constructional
databases are presented on the website.

We look forward to seeing how our colleagues around the world can make use
of this new resource and we are at your disposal for questions and
corrections. You can find ways to contact us on the website, and we will
periodically update the database into the future.

Thank you,

David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, and Marine Vuillermet on behalf of
the ATLAs team
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