"Information structure is concerned both with ‘mental states’ of speakers and hearers and with linguistic means used to convey these mental states. In other words, the linguist interested in information structure (IS), deals simultaneously with formal and communicative aspects of language. The main contrasts concern ‘new’, ‘accessible’ and ‘given’, as well as ‘topic’, focus,’ and ‘background’". (Skopeteas et al., 2006: 1)
Syntax/Morphosyntax
2006
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"This questionnaire was developed as a part of the Variation in Control Structures project to document control patterns in understudied languages." (Questionnaire, p.1)
"About the Project
Until very recently, it was assumed that control structures in English were representative of control structures cross-linguistically. Specifically, it was assumed that the controller always preceded the controllee. Recent syntactic proposals, especially analyses of "backwards control," however, have challenged these assumptions. -
This questionnaire "has been developed as a typological-oriented questionnaire for descriptive linguists and fieldworkers allowing them to determine the possible existence and language-specific characteristics of a word class of "quality verbs‟. (Elders et al., 2006: 1)
2005
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''These questionnaires were developed by the AUTOTYP project. AUTOTYP is a large-scale research program with goals in both quantitative and qualitative typology. In quantitative typology, it is interested in detecting and explaining geographical distributions of typological features and in producing statistical estimates of universal preferences as well as of genealogical inheritance and areal diffusion potentials.
2004
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Ce questionnaire a été créé dans le cadre du projet "Typologie des adjectifs et de la qualification dans les langues africaines", par le Projet International de Coopération Scientifique, LLACAN (CNRS, Inalco, Paris 7) / Universität Bayreuth (Afrikanistik).
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Ce questionnaire fait partie du projet "Typologie des adjectifs et de la qualification dans les langues africaines" mis en place par le Projet International de Coopération Scientifique, LLACAN (CNRS, Inalco, Paris 7) / Universität Bayreuth (Afrikanistik).
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Il a été développé en collaboration par le LLACAN et l'Université de Bayreuth dans le cadre du PICS "L'attribution de la qualité dans les langues africaines".
2003
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It is intended to assist researchers in writing grammatical sketches of languages related to Persian.
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It was developed to examine strategies for causativizing and decausativizing. For further discussion, see: Nichols, Johanna, David Peterson, and Jonathan Barnes. 2004. Transitivizing and detransitivizing languages. Linguistic Typology 8:149–211.
2002
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" Our aim is to collect relevant, quality information about each subject language included in the database. In order to accomplish this we will rely not only on your knowledge of the subject language, but also on your skills as a linguist. " (Dimitriadis and Everaert, 2002 : 1)