OLAC Record oai:TDProject.sr.language-archives.org:agreement

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Title:		Agreement and alignment in the languages of the world
Contributor:		Bakker, Dik
Contributor (author):		Siewierska, Anna
		Bakker, Dik
Contributor (editor):		Siewierska, Anna
Creator:		Siewierska, Anna
		Bakker, Dik
Date:		2001-05-01
Description:		The database on agreement in the languages of the world has been developed by Anna Siewierska over the last 8 years. It is constantly being corrected and updated, both in terms of new languages and new variables. A number of articles and conference papers have been based on it, and are in progress. Currently, the database contains close to 100 variables on agreement and relevant syntactic and morphological aspects of around 400 languages. A major subset of these languages conforms to the sampling criteria of Rijkhoff and Bakker (1998). This subset comprises 45 of the 50 languages defined by the Typological Database Project as the standard sample. Furthermore, a subset of 200 languages conform to the sample for the World Atlas of Language Structure project of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. The variables are coded in the comprehensive system of the Computer Programs for Language Typology (CPLT), introduced in Bakker (1994), which have been used in the cause of the EuroTyp project. The usual way of representing typological data, the rectangular data matrix, has an atomic value in each cell, i.e. the combination of a language and a variable. See example (1) below. (1) a. Dutch/Basic Word Order = SVO b. Dutch/Alternative Word Order = OVS In contrast to this, the CPLT system allows for multiple values per cell, as well as the addition of scales and syntagmatic conditions. Cf. example (2). (2) Dutch/Main Clause Order = SVO - (basicness = basic) \ OVS - ((basicness = marked),(O = contrastive focus)) This method of coding has been used to a large extent in the database under discussion. Examples may be found under (3) and (4) below, for Maung and Ngiti respectively. (3) SO(1+2)\OS(3+3,1+2)\both (4) pref\(inal_1sg+plinc+3)\suf(inal)\indep(al) (3), for variable V52_6 in the database (i.e. order of S and O prefixes on verb) should be interpreted as: the order is SO when the S is first person and the O is second person but OS when either both are third person or the O is first person and the S second person; when S is a first or second person and the O third or vice versa, either order may be used (4), for variable V60_1 (i.e. form of pronominal possessor) should be interpreted as: pronominal possessors if marking inalienable possession are marked either by a prefix or a suffix; the prefix is used for the 1st person singular and plural inclusive and for the third person, other wise a suffix is used; alienable possession is expressed by independent pronouns. As for the current variables in the agreement database, these are distributed over the following sections: Section A. General information on the language Section B. Agreement for grammatical relations Section C. Agreement marking of possessors in adnominal possessive constructions Section D. Agreement marking for adpositions Section E. Free personal and possessive pronouns
Format:		CPLT format
		Microsoft Access/Excel
Subject:		Typological data on several types of agreement in a genetically and areally stratified sample of the languages of the world.
		Agreement
		Subject agreement
		Object agreement
		Possessor-possessed agreement
		Adpositional agreement
Type (DCMI):		Dataset
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Typological Database Project
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/TDProject.sr.language-archives.org
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:TDProject.sr.language-archives.org:agreement
DateStamp:		2002-12-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
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Citation:		Siewierska, Anna; Siewierska, Anna; Bakker, Dik. 2001-05-01. The Typological Database Project.
Terms:		dcmi_Dataset