Contribution: Linguistic diversity in space and time

by Johanna Nichols

This dataset comes from the following book (Appendixes 1-3):

Nichols, Johanna. 1992. /Linguistic diversity in space and time./ Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

It covers head and dependent marking, alignment, clusivity, alienability, gender agreement, plural marking, and valency-changing operations. At the time when the book was published, this was by far the most extensive grammatical database that had been made publicly available.

Name Glottocode Family Source Examples
Details L-Parameter Description Topics Representation
Details Name Title Author Year Languages