Errata in the printed edition of 2005
Friday, October 19th, 2007The following errata in the printed edition of WALS have been corrected in WALS Online from 2008:
- Value assignment errors (29)
- Ch. 18: Oneida 5 -> 2
- Ch. 33:
- Basque 2 -> 8 (plural clitic)
- Yagaria 2 -> 8
- Ch. 33: Tshangla 2 -> 8 (Plural clitic) (Andvik 1999: 123)
- Ch. 36: Mauritian Creole 3 -> 1 (check!)
- Ch. 37:
- Alamblak 2 -> 1
- Tajik 1 -> 4 (No definite, but indefinite article)
- Ch. 38: Swedish 1 -> 2 (Indefinite word same as ‘one’)
- Ch. 51: Tshangla 1 -> 6 (Postpositional clitic) (Andvik 1999: 123)
- Ch. 57: Yagaria 2 -> 3
- Ch. 71: Kawaiisu 2 -> 4
- Ch. 81: Sobei 7 -> 2 (SVO)
- Ch. 83: Sobei 3 -> 2 (VO)
- Ch. 86: Fongbe 1 -> 2 (Noun-genitive)
- Ch. 86: Arop-Lokep 1 -> 3 (No dominant order)
- Ch. 87: Mussau 3 -> 1 (Adjective-noun)
- Ch. 88:
- Breton 4 -> 2 (Noun-demonstrative)
- Erromangan 1 -> 2 (Noun-demonstrative)
- Qiang 1 -> 2
- Yagaria 1 -> 6
- Ch. 89: Hanga Hundi 1 -> 3 (No dominant order)
- Ch. 90:
- Garo 1 -> 2 (Relative clause-noun)
- Lisu 7 -> 2 (Relative clause-noun)
- Ch. 92: Kele 6 -> 2 (Final)
- Ch. 96: Garo 2 -> 1
- Ch. 96: Lisu 5 -> 1
- Ch. 97: Mussau 5 -> 3
- Ch. 116:
- Kele 6 -> 1 (Question particle)
- Yagaria 2 -> 1
Andvik, Erik E. 1999. Tshangla grammar. Ph.D. thesis, University of Oregon.
- Language identification errors (2)
Ch. 74: Gadaba should be “Gadaba (Kondekor)” (this is a
language which so far has not been on the list of WALS
languages) (WALS code: gdk)- WALS language “Mekens” (WALS code: mek)
- Ethnologue (14th ed.): SKF Sakirabiá
Ethnologue (15th ed.): skf Sakirabiá - WALS language “Malagasy” (WALS code: mal)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): plt Malagasy, Plateau
- WALS language “Chaga” (WALS code: cga)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): old Mochi
- WALS language “Kana” (WALS code: kan)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): ogo Khana
- WALS language “Kinga” (WALS code: kga)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): zga Kinga
- WALS language “Yi” (WALS code: yi)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): iii Yi, Sichuan
- WALS language “Anguthimri” (WALS code: agt)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): lnj Leningitij
- WALS language “Marchha” (WALS code: mrc)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): rnp Rongpo
- WALS language “Warrwa” (WALS code: wrw)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): wwr Warrwa
- WALS language “Eudeve” (WALS code: eud)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): opt Opata
- WALS language “Lalo” (WALS code: lal)
- Ethnologue (15th ed.): ywt Yi, Xishan Lalu
- WALS language “Yuchi” (WALS code: yuc)
- other names: Euchee
ISO 639-3 codes to be added (these are languages that are not
in Ethnologue):- Karankawa = zkk
- WALS language “Coahuilteco” (WALS code: coa) -> ISO 639-3 code: xcw
- WALS language “Timucua” (WALS code: tmc) -> ISO 639-3 code: tjm
- WALS language “Chemakum” (WALS code: cmk) -> ISO 639-3 code: xch
- WALS language “Comecrudo” (WALS code: cmc) -> ISO 639-3 code: xcm
- Language classification/name errors (3)
- Johari: should be Tibeto-Burman (Bodic genus) (not Indo-European, Indic genus) without Ethnologue link.
- Gadaba: should be called “Gutob” (this is not a real error, but the name “Gadaba” for this Munda language is confusing because there is also a Dravidian language by the name “Gadaba”)
- Mikarew: should be in genus 53.5 (Mikarew), not in 53.3 (Lower Ramu)
Genealogical classification changes
3.1 Adamawa-Ubangi [now a subfamily, and renamed (without the -an of Ubangian)] 3.1.2 Adamawa Day Doyayo Gula Iro Koh (Lakka) Kosop Lua Mbum Mumuye Mundang Samba Leko Tupuri Yag Dii 3.1.2 Ubangi Baka (in Cameroon) Barambu Dongo Gbaya Kara Gbeya Bossangoa Linda Ma Mba Mdobomo Mondunga Mündü Ndogo Ngbaka Ngbandi Nzakara Sango Yakoma Zande 3.7 Kordofanian [now a subfamily, split into 5 genera] 3.7.1 Heiban Moro Otoro 3.7.2 Katla-Tima Katla 3.7.3 Rashad Orig Rashad 3.7.4 Talodi Proper Jomang Masakin 3.7.5 Tegem Lafofa 6.9 Saharan -> Western Saharan [rename genus] 7.5 Omotic [now a subfamily, split into two genera] 7.5.1 North Omotic Dizi Gamo Gimira Koyra Kullo Maale Ometo Shinassha Wolaytta Yemsa Zayse 7.5.2 South Omotic Aari Dime Hamer Kefa Moca 30. Andamanese [split into two separate families, corresponding to the two genera in the book] new 30. Great Andamanese new 30a. South Andamanese 40. Tor -> Tor-Orya [rename family and split into two genera] 40.1 Orya Orya 40.2 Tor Berik 45.3 Western Sko -> Serra Hills [rename genus] 57.7 Duna-Bogaya -> Duna [rename genus] 57.13 Kutubuan: Fasu should be taken out of Kutubuan and placed in a separate genus called 'Fasu' 57.16 Mairasi-Tanah Merah -> Mairasi [rename genus] 57.19 Timor-Alor-Pantar [split into two genera] 57.19 Kolana-Tanglapui Kolana Tanglapui 57.19a West Timor-Alor-Pantar Kui (in Indonesia) Woisika 67. Gogodala-Suki [split into two genera] 67.1 Gogodala Gogodala 67.2 Suki Suki 72. Elemen [split into two genera] 72.1 Eleman Proper Orokolo Toaripi 72.2 Tate Kaki Ae 78. Baining-Taulil [split into two genera] 78.1 Baining Baining Mali 78.2 Taulil Taulil 82. Solomons East Papuan Family [split into three separate families, each language a separate family with one genus with one language]: new 82. Bilua Bilua new 82a. Lavukaleve Lavukaleve new 82b. Savosavo Savosavo 84.7.8 Yangmanic: Wagiman should be split off from Yangmanic as a separate genus called Wagiman 86. Eskimo-Aleut [split into two genera] 86.1 Aleut Aleut Aleut (Eastern) 86.2 Eskimo all the other lgs listed in WALS under Eskimo-Aleut 128. Subtiaba-Tlapanec: This should have been listed as a genus within Oto-Manguean (124). 143. Sáliban [split into two genera] 143.1 Piaroa Piaroa 143.2 Saliba Sáliba (in Columbia) 200. Lule-Vilela -> Lule [rename family]by Matthew S. Dryer
["I am indebted to Harald Hammarström for helpful advice leading
to many of the revisions here from the Genealogical Language
List ..."] - Feature description error/omission (1)
The text for feature 40 (”Exclusive/Inclusive Distinction in Verbal Inflection”) does not mention that only person affixes in “subject” function have been taken into account.
- Typos (3)
- p. 286: runáját > runájiet
- jacket back: demonstrativennoun and nounndemonstrative
- p. 367; examples 7a and 7b; ergative suffix: – e > -ɹe
- References in electronic version
All errors concern Sharma 1989a/b/c and Sharma 1992
- Tod:
- Lists the data source (for velar nasals) as Sharma 1989a, and lists the reference as Sharma 1989c, whereas in fact these should both be Sharma 1989b.
- Tinani and Gahri:
- The references listed are b and c, when it should only be b. And while the data source is correctly b for Matthew Dryer’s maps, for both it is incorrectly listed as a for the velar nasal map.
- Pattani:
- As with the last two, the references listed are b and c, when it should only be b. But this time it is right for velar nasal, but wrong for my maps, where (at least for some of them) it is listed as a.
- Spitian and Nyamkad:
- Two references are listed, a 1989d and a 1992. But these are the same source, and the correct year is 1992. There should be no 1989d. Furthermore the data source for chapter 9 (The Velar Nasal) is listed as 1989b. Matthew Dryer’s maps are correct as 1992.
- Jad:
- Here the data source (only on Matthew Dryer’s maps) and the reference are both listed as a, which are both wrong, since the source is c.
