Archive for the ‘Nominal Categories’ Category

Datapoint for feature 45 and language wals_code_pol

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 45 and language wals_code_pol.

Value assignment error in chapter 51 for japanese

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

The value for feature 51 (Position of Case Affixes) for japanese will be corrected in the next edition of WALS Online. The correct value is “Postpositional clitics”, not “No case affixes or adpositional clitics”.

Datapoint for feature 51 and language wals_code_jpn

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 51 and language wals_code_jpn.

Value assignment errors in chapter 33

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

The values for feature 33 (Coding of Nominal Plurality) of the following languages will be corrected in the next edition of WALS Online:

  • Berber (Siwa): Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural
  • Mondunga: Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural
  • Päri: Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural
  • Pokot: Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural
  • Berta: Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural
  • Lagwan: Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural
  • Coos (Hanis): Plural suffix -> Mixed morphological plural

Number of Genders

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

by Greville G. Corbett http://wals.info/feature/30

Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

by Greville G. Corbett http://wals.info/feature/31

Systems of Gender Assignment

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

by Greville G. Corbett http://wals.info/feature/32

Coding of Nominal Plurality

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

by Matthew S. Dryer http://wals.info/feature/33

Occurrence of Nominal Plurality

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

by Martin Haspelmath http://wals.info/feature/34

Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

by Michael Daniel http://wals.info/feature/35