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The World Atlas of Language Structures
Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie
712 pages
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Colour illustrations throughout
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360X248mm
978-0-19-925591-7
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Hardback
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21 July 2005
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- 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.
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.
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Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Matthew S. Dryer, University at Buffalo, David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Contributors:
Andreas Ammann, University of Antwerp
Gregory D. Anderson, Salem USA
Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey
Dik Bakker, University of Amsterdam
D.N.S. Bhat, Central Institute for Indian Languages
Balthasar Bickel, University of Leipzig
Cecil H. Brown, Northern
Illinois University
Dunston Brown, University of Surrey
Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey
Sonia Cristofaro, University of Pavia
Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm
Michael Daniel, Moscow State University
Holger Diessel, University of Jena
Nina R. Dobrushina, Moscow State University
Matthew S. Dryer, University at Buffalo
Orin D. Gensler, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Rob Goedemans, University of Leiden
Valentin Goussev, Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of
Science
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Ferdinand de Haan, University of Arizona
John Hajek, University of Melbourne
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Johannes Helmbrecht, University of Erfurt
Oliver A. Iggesen, La Trobe University
Paul Kay, Berkeley, CA
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, University of Stockholm
Ekkehard König, Free University of Berlin
Tania Kuteva, University of Düsseldorf
Ludo Lejeune, University of Antwerp
Ian Maddieson, University of California at Berkeley
Luisa Maffi, Terralingua
Elena Maslova, Stanford University
Matti Miestamo,
University of Helsinki
Edith Moravcsik, University o fWisconsin-Milwaukee
Vladimir Nedjalkov, Institute of Linguistic Research, St. Peterburg
Johanna Nichols, University of California at Berkeley
Umarani Pappuswamy, University of Pittsburg
David A. Peterson, Dartmouth College
Maria Polinsky, University of California at San Diego
Carl Rubino, USA
Peter Siemund, University of Hamburg
Anna Siewierska, Lancaster University
Jae Jung Song, University of Otago
Leon Stassen, University of Nijmegen
Thomas Stolz, University of Bremen
Cornelia Strohn, University of Bremen
Stephan Töpper, Free University of Berlin
Aina
Urdze, University of Bremen
Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp
Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut
Ljuba Veselinova, University of Stockholm
Ulrike Zeshan, Man-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics
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"...welcomed by linguistics interested in typology...it achieves the goal of providing a representative picture of the diversity of languages." - Anna Giacalone Ramet Archivio Glottologico Italiano "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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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
9: Lexicon
10: Sign Languages
11: Other
III Reference Material
Index
CV
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