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The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a

Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie.[1]

The atlas provides information on the location, linguistic affiliation and basic

typological features of a great number of the world's languages. It interacts with Google Maps. The information of the atlas is published under a Creative Commons
license.

History

Releases

Use

Reception

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"CD‐ROM is 110MB and operating systems supported are Windows 98, 2000 and XP"[5]

Reception

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Reviews of the 2005 Oxford volume and CD appeared in both linguistics and library science periodicals.

Ivilyuat, and Nahuatl, and found errors in eight chapters. He concludes his review advising users to "double-check the data".[6] Wolfgang Schulze [ru; de]'s review in Studies in Language included a check of WALS's information of the languages of the Caucasus and estimated a performance rate of 80% for that group of languages but overall called it "extremely useful".[9]

The review in Reference and User Services Quarterly by University of Texas at San Antonio linguistics bibliographer Charles Thurston called WALS "indispensable for academic libraries".[10] The College & Research Libraries News review by American Libraries senior editor George M. Eberbart called it "essential for linguists and grammarians, but also of interest to anthropologists and geographers".[11] The review in Library Journal "recommended [it] for all academic libraries" and said it "is sure to become the definitive atlas on the subject."[12]

Additional linguists have discussed WALS after it moved online.

Nisg̱a’a—which they describe as "sociopolitically distinct, but mutually intelligible", and found WALS's data differened for half of the features which were recorded for both of them despite them being "for all intents and purposes the same language". Davis and colleagues this "raises grave concerns about the reliability of grammar-mining over the thousands of languages featured in WALS." They have suggested WALS move to a crowd-sourcing model like Wikipedia in order to to correct errors as well as increased consultation with area specialists and clarification from grammars' authors.[14]

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Velupillai

References

  1. ^ a b "WALS Online -".
  2. ^ Haspelmath, Martin; Dryer, Matthew S.; Gil, David; Comrie, Bernard, eds. (2005). The World Atlas of Language Structures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  3. doi:10.1524/stuf.2008.0018
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  4. doi:10.1515/9783110198744.283
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  5. doi:10.1111/j.1749-818x.2008.00062.x
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  6. ^
    JSTOR 10.1086/519060
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  7. ^ a b Dixon, R. M. W. (2012). "Appendix 1 Source materials". Basis Linguistic Theory 3: Further Grammatical Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 461–462.
  8. doi:10.1515/LITY.2009.003
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  9. doi:10.1075/sl.31.2.08sch
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  10. JSTOR 20864585. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  11. doi:10.5860/crln.67.1.7560
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  12. ProQuest 196868339
  13. doi:10.1017/9781316135716.001
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  14. doi:10.1353/lan.2015.0039
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  15. doi:10.1108/09504120610691664
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  16. ^ Donohue, Mark (2006). "Review: Typology: Haspelmath, Dryer, Gil & Comrie (2005)". LINGUIST List. 17 (1055).
  17. ^ Stolova, Natalya I. (October 2006). "Book review: The World Atlas of Language Structures". International Cognitive Linguistics Association. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012.
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