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Autotypologizing databases and their use in ﬁeldwork

Year: 2002

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper presents two database methods for crosslinguistic data collection and comparison: autotypologizing and exemplar-based sampling.Autotypologizing dispenses with a priori defined comparative grids and instead lets structural types emerge inductively through a type list that is constantly updated in response to languages entered in a database.Examplar-based sampling allows identification of a single representative of cross-linguistically heterogeneous structural domains such as case.These two methods are helpful tools in fieldwork.Autotypologizing generates inventories of known types.These inventories update researchers' expectance range for newly encountered types (like published typological surveys, but more dynamically).Examplar-based sampling is useful for writing typological profiles at very early stages of description.

Source: Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)

DOI: 10.5167/uzh-76860

Author: Bickel, Balthasar

Institution: Leipzig University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

OpenAlex ID: W2740947391