36.1755, FYI: Publication of the ATLAs database

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-1755. Thu Jun 05 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.1755, FYI: Publication of the ATLAs database

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Date: 04-Jun-2025
From: David Inman [havennah at gmail.com]
Subject: Publication of the ATLAs database


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://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14504419). 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

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Typology




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