The questionnaire was developed within the context of the Eurotyp project.
Questionnaires by metalanguage
1990
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''This document provides a set of descriptors to be used in describing the internal structure of the noun phrase across languages. As used by the author, a descriptor is a statement like, "There is no plural marker." The author refers to a coherent set of descriptors as a "checklist", which is roughly equivalent to "questionnaire" for other authors. In addition to developing the proposed general checklist in outline, the author discusses the criteria adopted for the evaluation of typological checklists.
1989
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"This questionnaire was sent to all the contributors of the volume Typological Studies in Negation, edited by Kahrel and van den Berg (John Benjamins, 1994)." (Van den Berg and Kahrel, 1989: 1)
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"STEDT is a long-term linguistics research project at the University of California at Berkeley. It is directed by Professor James A. MATISOFF of Berkeley's Linguistics Department. Our goal is the publication of an etymological dictionary of Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST), the ancestor language of the large Sino-Tibetan language family. This family includes Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, and over 200 other languages spoken in South and Southeast Asia." (from the STEDT website)
1987
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"This questionnaire is meant to supplement Comrie and Smith's (1977: 21—24) questionnaire concerned with semantic reflexivity and reciproc- ity, two of the meanings frequently rendered by RVs across languages. Our concern is with reflexive markers (RMs), their range of functions, existence and non-existence of particular RV types, the universal and language-specific properties of RV systems and existing RV types, and also with rivalling strategies used to express the meanings that can be rendered by RVs." (Geniusiené, 1987: 361).
1985
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"The link labeled Tenses, Moods and Aspects (TMA) Questionnaire connects to Dahl's typological study of tense and aspect systems." (Typological tools for field linguistics website. https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/questionnaire/tma_description.php)
The questionnaire was published as an appendix in his book Tense and Aspect Systems (1985):
1979
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It goes along with the Greenberg list, as well as the Tervuren list. The author also attached a list he set up and which was not published.
1977
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''A questionnaire primarily designed for grammar-writing, but with useful structural questions that should be addressed in the field; the Lingua Questionnaire underlies the North Holland/Croom Helm/Routledge Descriptive grammar series. This questionnaire provides the basic questions for the description of many of the constructions found in human language. A large number of grammars have been written based on the questionnaire.
1976
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Ce questionnaire a été publié dans l'ouvrage Enquete et description des langues à tradition orale (Bouquiaux & Thomas, 1976).
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"Le choix des nominaux de la liste B a été fait en fonction des langues aux morphologies les plus complexes, les langues "à classes". Ainsi trouvera-t-on dans cette liste des termes de parentés, des termes se rapportant à la nature, des noms de parties du corps, des liquides, des aliments, des objets fabriqués, des animaux, des termes abstraits, des "verbo-nominaux". Pour les langues à morphologie plus simple, il ne sera pas toujours nécessaire d'épuiser cette liste". (Tersis, 1976: 369)