THE UNIVERSALS ARCHIVE goes do-it-yourself
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Frans Plank
Abstract
For over seven years The Universals Archive has now been available on the internet in the form of a searchable archive, enabling its on-line users either to retrieve particular universals or sets of them (in terms of any words or word parts, or combinations of words or word parts, that occur in archive entries) or to browse through the archive for general instruction or entertainment. Although, with currently over 2,000 entries, The Universals Archive is the most extensive collection of linguistic universals, it is a far cry from being comprehensive, not to mention other shortcomings. Nonetheless, over the years, many typologists appear to have found it a useful resource for research and teaching; and much valuable feedback was received by the archivists.
© Walter de Gruyter
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Articles in the same Issue
- Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia
- Constituent order change in the Tai languages of Assam
- Typological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages
- Randomization tests in language typology
- Book Reviews
- THE UNIVERSALS ARCHIVE goes do-it-yourself
- The second five years of LT: Editorial report
- Contents of Linguistic Typology Volume 10 (2006)
