The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

Authors

Andreas Ammann

chapters

• Situational Possibility
• Epistemic Possibility
• Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking

Gregory D.S. Anderson

www

http://www.livingtongues.org/aboutus.html

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• The Velar Nasal

Matthew Baerman

www

http://www.defectiveness.surrey.ac.uk/Baerman/

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• Case Syncretism
• Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking

Dik Bakker

www

http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/d.bakker/

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• Person Marking on Adpositions

D.N.S. Bhat

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• Third Person Pronouns and Demonstratives

Balthasar Bickel

www

http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~bickel/

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• Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
• Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
• Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb
• Locus of Marking in the Clause
• Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
• Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
• Obligatory Possessive Inflection
• Possessive Classification

Cecil H. Brown

www

http://www3.niu.edu/anthro/people/faculty/brown.htm

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• Hand and Arm
• Finger and Hand

Dunstan Brown

www

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/cmc/staff-profiles/brown-dunstan.htm

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• Case Syncretism
• Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking

Bernard Comrie

www

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/comrie.php

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• Alignment of Case Marking of Full Noun Phrases
• Alignment of Case Marking of Pronouns
• Relativization on Subjects
• Relativization on Obliques
• Numeral Bases
• Writing Systems

Greville G. Corbett

www

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/gcorbett.htm

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• Number of Genders
• Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems
• Systems of Gender Assignment

Sonia Cristofaro

www

http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=121

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• Purpose Clauses
• 'When' Clauses
• Reason Clauses
• Utterance Complement Clauses

Michael Cysouw

www

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/cysouw.php

chapters

• Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Independent Pronouns
• Inclusive/Exclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection

Östen Dahl

www

http://www2.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/index.htm

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• Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
• The Past Tense
• The Future Tense
• The Perfect
• Tea

Michael Daniel

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• Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns
• The Associative Plural

Ferdinand de Haan

www

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~fdehaan/

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• Semantic Distinctions of Evidentiality
• Coding of Evidentiality

Holger Diessel

www

http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~x4diho/index.html

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• Distance Contrasts in Demonstratives
• Pronominal and Adnominal Demonstratives

Nina Dobrushina

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• Imperative-Hortative Systems
• The Optative

Matthew S. Dryer

www

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/dryer.htm

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• Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology
• Coding of Nominal Plurality
• Definite Articles
• Indefinite Articles
• Position of Case Affixes
• Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes
• Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes
• Order of Subject, Object and Verb
• Order of Subject and Verb
• Order of Object and Verb
• Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb
• Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
• Order of Genitive and Noun
• Order of Adjective and Noun
• Order of Demonstrative and Noun
• Order of Numeral and Noun
• Order of Relative Clause and Noun
• Order of Degree Word and Adjective
• Position of Polar Question Particles
• Position of Interrogative Phrases in Content Questions
• Order of Adverbial Subordinator and Clause
• Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase
• Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Relative Clause and Noun
• Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun
• Expression of Pronominal Subjects
• Negative Morphemes
• Polar Questions

Orin D. Gensler

chapters

• Order of Object, Oblique, and Verb

David Gil

www

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/gil.php

chapters

• Distributive Numerals
• Numeral Classifiers
• Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers
• Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses
• Adjectives without Nouns
• Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks

Rob Goedemans

www

http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~goedemansrwn/

chapters

• Fixed Stress Locations
• Weight-Sensitive Stress
• Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
• Rhythm Types

Valentin Goussev

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• The Morphological Imperative
• The Prohibitive
• Imperative-Hortative Systems
• The Optative

John Hajek

www

http://www.fritss.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/hajek.html

chapters

• Vowel Nasalization

Martin Haspelmath

www

http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/haspelmath.php

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• Occurrence of Nominal Plurality
• Indefinite Pronouns
• Nominal and Verbal Conjunction
• Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give'
• Negative Indefinite Pronouns and Predicate Negation
• 'Want' Complement Subjects

Johannes Helmbrecht

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• Politeness Distinctions in Pronouns

Oliver A. Iggesen

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• Number of Cases
• Asymmetrical Case-Marking

Paul Kay

www

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/

chapters

• Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories
• Number of Basic Colour Categories
• Green and Blue
• Red and Yellow

Ekkehard König

www

http://personal.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/koenig

chapters

• Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

www

http://www.ling.su.se/staff/tamm/

chapters

• Action Nominal Constructions

Tania Kuteva

www

http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/anglist3/kuteva/

chapters

• Relativization on Subjects
• Relativization on Obliques

Ludo Lejeune

chapters

• The Morphological Imperative
• The Prohibitive

Ian Maddieson

www

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=23

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• Consonant Inventories
• Vowel Quality Inventories
• Consonant-Vowel Ratio
• Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives
• Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems
• Uvular Consonants
• Glottalized Consonants
• Lateral Consonants
• Front Rounded Vowels
• Syllable Structure
• Tone
• Absence of Common Consonants
• Presence of Uncommon Consonants

Luisa Maffi

www

http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Endangered_Lang_Conf/Maffi.html

chapters

• Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories
• Number of Basic Colour Categories
• Green and Blue
• Red and Yellow

Elena Maslova

www

http://www.stanford.edu/~emaslova/

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• Reciprocal Constructions

Matti Miestamo

www

http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~matmies/

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• Symmetric and Asymmetric Standard Negation
• Subtypes of Asymmetric Standard Negation

Edith Moravcsik

www

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/FLL/faculty/moravcsik.html

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• The Associative Plural

Vladimir P. Nedjalkov

chapters

• Reciprocal Constructions

Johanna Nichols

www

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~jbn/

chapters

• Fusion of Selected Inflectional Formatives
• Exponence of Selected Inflectional Formatives
• Inflectional Synthesis of the Verb
• Locus of Marking in the Clause
• Locus of Marking in Possessive Noun Phrases
• Locus of Marking: Whole-language Typology
• Obligatory Possessive Inflection
• Possessive Classification
• M-T Pronouns
• N-M Pronouns

Umarani Pappuswamy

chapters

• The Morphological Imperative

David A. Peterson

www

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/faculty/peterson.html

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• M-T Pronouns
• N-M Pronouns

Maria Polinsky

www

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/f_polinsky.html

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• Antipassive Constructions
• Applicative Constructions

Carl Rubino

www

http://iloko.tripod.com/

chapters

• Reduplication

Peter Siemund

www

http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/peter.siemund/

chapters

• Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns

Anna Siewierska

www

http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/299/

chapters

• Gender Distinctions in Independent Personal Pronouns
• Alignment of Verbal Person Marking
• Verbal Person Marking
• Third Person Zero of Verbal Person Marking
• Order of Person Markers on the Verb
• Passive Constructions

Jae Jung Song

www

http://www.otago.ac.nz/linguistics/staff/song.html

chapters

• Periphrastic Causative Constructions
• Nonperiphrastic Causative Constructions

Leon Stassen

chapters

• Noun Phrase Conjunction
• Predicative Possession
• Predicative Adjectives
• Nominal and Locational Predication
• Zero Copula for Predicate Nominals
• Comparative Constructions

Thomas Stolz

www

http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/homepages/stolz/default.htm

chapters

• Comitatives and Instrumentals
• Ordinal Numerals

Cornelia Stroh

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• Comitatives and Instrumentals

Stephan Töpper

www

http://www.ieconline.de/ueber-iec-online/unsere-mitarbeiter.html

chapters

• Intensifiers and Reflexive Pronouns

Aina Urdze

chapters

• Comitatives and Instrumentals

Johan van der Auwera

www

http://webh01.ua.ac.be/vdauwera/

chapters

• The Morphological Imperative
• The Prohibitive
• Imperative-Hortative Systems
• The Optative
• Situational Possibility
• Epistemic Possibility
• Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking

Harry van der Hulst

www

http://www.linguistics.uconn.edu/People/vanderhulst.html

chapters

• Fixed Stress Locations
• Weight-Sensitive Stress
• Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems
• Rhythm Types

Viveka Velupillai

www

http://www.lalitha.de/velupillai/index.html

chapters

• Perfective/Imperfective Aspect
• The Past Tense
• The Future Tense
• The Perfect

Ljuba N. Veselinova

www

http://www.ling.su.se/staff/ljuba/

chapters

• Ordinal Numerals
• Suppletion According to Tense and Aspect
• Verbal Number and Suppletion

Ulrike Zeshan

www

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class/edustud/deafcentre/ulrikezeshan.html

chapters

• Irregular Negatives in Sign Languages
• Question Particles in Sign Languages

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