



WALS contains different features, which is a structural property of language that describes one aspect of cross-linguistic diversity. A WALS feature has between 2 and 28 different values, shown by different colours on the maps. Most features correspond straightforwardly to chapters, but some chapters are about multiple features. ...



Wales [véls] (valižansko Cymru; izgovori /ˈkəmri/) je ena od držav, ki sestavljajo Združeno kraljestvo.Čeprav je izraz Kneževina Wales, valižansko Tywysogaeth Cymru, pogosto uporabljen, ga v Walesu mnogi zavračajo, saj valižanski princ nima nobene vloge pri upravljanju Walesa. Wales obsega 8,5 odstotka vse površine Združenega kraljestva, v …



Feature 81A: Order of Subject, Object and Verb. This feature is described in the text of chapter 81 Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer. cite. You may combine this feature with another one. Start typing the feature name or number in the field below. 81A: Order of Subject, Object and Verb.



The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors. A feature is a structural property of language that describes one aspect of cross-linguistic diversity.









The goal of the WALS is to keep NIH researchers abreast of the latest and most important research in the United States and beyond. An added treat is the annual J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture, which features top authors and other cultural icons. All speakers are nominated by the NIH community. The WALS began in 1994 as a means …



The World Atlas of Language Structures (often abbreviated as WALS) is primarily a book with 142 world maps showing the global distribution of structural features of language. It was put together by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology between 1999 and 2004 ...











The World Atlas of Language Structures - WALS. The Interactive Reference Tool (available on first CD-ROM, later probably on the web) will allow the atlas user to view the maps in a variety of different forms, as well as to combine features, i.e. to generate compound features and to display these as well. The interactive database will also ...



The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors. The first version of WALS was published as a book with CD-ROM in 2005 by Oxford University …









NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series. All lectures this upcoming season will be in Lipsett Amphitheater at 2:00 p.m. ET and be viewable live on VideoCast at https://videocast.nih. gov, unless noted otherwise. In the meantime, you should binge-watch this past year and archives dating back more than 20 years at …



WALS 2023 Conference Theme. LessonStudyNL is excited to welcome you back to the Netherlands. The 2023 international conference will be held in Zwolle, a beautiful medieval city with a modern art scene. Zwolle is the home base of Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, one of the partners of LessonStudyNL. We are thrilled to have you back.



The WALS (The World Atlas of Language Structures; Haspelmath et al. 2005) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of more than 40 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject).





Chapter Tone. 1. Introduction. All languages make use of variations in the musical pitch of the voice as part of their sound systems, but they differ in the ways in which modifications of pitch are used and how many different types of functions are served by pitch variations. Linguists distinguish between two of the major uses of pitch as tone ...



Chapter Vowel Nasalization. by John Hajek. cite. 1. The values shown on Map 10A. This chapter deals with the distribution of contrastive vowel nasalization in the world's languages. The existence of contrastive nasal vowels is well known in some languages, e.g. French /pɛ̃/ pain 'bread' vs. /pɛ/ paix 'peace'. About a quarter of the ...



WALS 2024 Welcomes You. Welcome to WALS 2024 – the 18th World Association of Lesson Studies International Conference. It will take place in Astana, Kazakhstan. The host organization is the Center of Excellence of Autonomous Educational organization "Nazarbayev Intellectual schools" (CoE). The CoE activity includes organizing and ...
