LINGUIST List 22.1983 Sat May 07 2011 FYI: New Edition of WALS Online Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Matthew Dryer , New Edition of WALS Online Message 1: New Edition of WALS Online Date: 06-May-2011 From: Matthew Dryer <dryerbuffalo.edu> Subject: New Edition of WALS Online E-mail this message to a friend We are happy to announce the release of a new edition of the online World Atlas of Language Structures (http://wals.info/). Among the features of the new edition: * There are two new chapters (chapter 143 on Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb, and chapter 144 on Position of Negative Word With Respect to Subject, Object, and Verb, both with many new maps) * New data for some chapters has been added. WALS Online now includes 76492 datapoints for 2678 languages. The feature with the most languages (Order of Object and Verb) now has data for 1519 languages. * Additional maps have been added to chapters 81 (Order of Subject, Object and Verb) and 90 (Order of Relative Clause and Noun). * The genealogical classification of languages, including genera, has been updated. * For some of the features, WALS now includes examples supplied by the authors Matthew Dryer and Martin Haspelmath, The Editors Linguistic Field(s): Typology Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.