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Mapping the World’s Linguistic Diversity: The World Atlas of
Language Structures
Bernard Comrie [email protected]
University of California Santa Barbara and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
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The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) edited by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie Interactive Reference Tool by Hans-Jörg Bibiko Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 695 pages a five-year project at the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Leipzig (1999-2004)
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wals.info
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Genealogical (genetic) diversity English belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages (2012 March 06)
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Arabic belongs to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages (2012 March 06)
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Structural diversity
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Tone Chinese (Mandarin): 4 tones mā ‘mother’ má ‘hemp’ mǎ ‘horse’ mà ‘reproach’
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Gender Spanish: 2 genders (masculine el, feminine la ‘the’) el chico ‘the boy’ la chica ‘the girl’ el árbol ‘the tree’ la casa ‘the house‘ German: 3 genders (masculine der, feminine die, neuter das ‘the’) der Mann ‘the man’ die Frau ‘the woman’ der Löffel ‘the spoon’ die Gabel ‘the fork’ das Messer ‘the knife’
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Order of object and verb English: V O The student bought the book. V O Japanese: O V Gakusei ga hon o katta. O V
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Words for ‘arm’/‘hand’ English: differentiation arm hand Russian: identity ruká
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Representation of languages in WALS
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Preliminary remarks About 6-7,000 languages are spoken in the world today; most are endangered, in 100 years we will be lucky to find half this number. Most of these languages have very few speakers: fewer than 400 have over a million speakers; nearly 4,000 have fewer than 10,000 speakers. WALS presents data on a sample of these languages, using an ideally fixed sample of 200 languages, supplemented by other languages according to convenience.
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Most of these languages are spoken in small communities, in traditional locations, and can be readily represented by a dot on a map. We extend this practice to ALL languages, taking various practical decisions, e.g. “undoing” recent migrations; so: English is spoken in England. Spanish is spoken in Spain. Zoogocho Zapotec is spoken in San Bartolomé Zoogocho (Oaxaca).
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Feature values are represented by the color of the dot
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[Main areas: Southeast Asia; equatorial Africa]
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[Black dots in Africa mainly Niger-Congo languages.]
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Correlations Between Features
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Relative clauses English: N Rel (the) book [that the student bought] N Rel Japanese: Rel N [gakusei ga katta] hon Rel N
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Hypotheses: a) VO order tends to correlate with NRel order. b) OV order tends to correlate with RelN order
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Correlation between VO/OV and NRel/RelN order Combination Languages VO & NRel 370 VO & RelN 5 OV & RelN 109 OV & NRel 96
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Hypotheses: a) VO order tends to correlate with NRel order 370 : 5 strongly confirmed only 5 exceptions, all in China b) OV order tends to correlate with RelN order 109 : 96 not confirmed confirmatory instances concentrated in Asia
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Hand and arm
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Hypothesis: Non-differentiation of ‘hand’ and ‘arm’ terms is more likely closer to the equator, differentiation more likely further from the equator. Latitude Differentiation Identity 70°N–36°N, 10°S–55°S 231 60 35°59´N–9°59´S 158 168 gamma = .61 p < .001 N = 617
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Relatives and Neighbors To what extent do languages tend to be similar structurally a) to their relatives? genealogical basis b) to their neighbors? areal basis Test case: (Mainland) Southeast Asia
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Numeral classifiers English two dogs Vietnamese hai con chó two CL dog
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20 diagnostic features of Southeast Asian languages Percentage of features shared by selected languages (NB: Not all data complete)
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Mongolian 5 Mandarin 42 Hmong Njua 64 Burmese Thai Vietnamese 50 95 89 Khmer 85 Malay-Indonesian 65
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Mapping the World’s Linguistic Diversity: The World Atlas of
Language Structures
Bernard Comrie [email protected] University of California Santa Barbara and
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig