The World Atlas of Language Structures
Edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie
With the collaboration of Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Hagen Jung, and Claudia Schmidt
Price: £450.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925591-7
Publication date: 21 July 2005
712 pages, 8 halftones, 4 line illus., 3 color halftones, 161 color maps, 360X248 mm
A sample of this book is available in PDF format
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| Reviews |
| - 'The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a lot of fun ... Addictively much fun ... To say that WALS significantly increases the degreee to which linguists are exposed to typological mapping is to make a great understatement ... the CD is wonderful ... This is a very real chance to spot correlations between different linguistic features, between linguistic features and areas, and
between linguistic features and language families. And, to return to the start of this review: it's a lot of fun.' - Mark Donohue, Monash University and National University of Singapore
- 'I suspect that many linguists will not be able to resist curling up with this massive volume on rainy days just for the fun facts.' - Books & Culture
- 'Handsome, original, and incredibly useful.' - John A. Hawkins, University of Cambridge
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| Description | | - An indispensable research and reference resource for every branch of linguistics
- Makes the results of comparative linguistics accessible to students and the non-linguists
- Will revolutionize comparative linguistics
- Highlights the world's amazing linguistic diversity
- Gives renewed visibility to endangered languages
| The World Atlas of Language Structures
is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map
shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description of the structural feature in question.
The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable
source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.
The Atlas
will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty
authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without it.
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Readership:
The book and CD will be used intensively by comparative linguists of all kinds including typologists, grammatical theorists, historical linguists, and those interested in a particular larger region, such as North America, SE Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. The Atlas
will also interest anthropologists and geographers. No institution involved in language research can afford to be without this book.
| Contents |
I Introduction
II The Mapy and Accompanying Texts
1.
Phonology
2.
Morphology
3.
Nominal Categories
4.
Nominal Syntax
5.
Verbal Categories
6.
Word Order
7.
Simple Clauses
8.
Complex Sentences
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Lexicon
10.
Sign Languages
11.
Other
III Reference Material
Index
CV
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Martin Haspelmath, Senior Scientist, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
Matthew S. Dryer, Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo,
David Gil, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and
Bernard Comrie, Director, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
With the collaboration of Hans-Jörg Bibiko,
Hagen Jung, and
Claudia Schmidt
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