"There are two main reasons for the development of this wordlist. First, many of the existing African wordlists simply do not contain enough lexical items to allow one to do serious comparative analysis. Second, many existing African wordlists are specific to a particular language family, and thus, a pan-African list offers the potential of serious comparative research. [...]
Lexical
2006
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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)
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).
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.
2000
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''This questionnaire was developed for the 2000 East Nusantara Linguistic Workshop. The questionnaire is intended to elicit the information necessary for an examination of language contact in East Nusantara.'' (Typological tools for field linguistics, https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/tools-at-lingboard/questionnaire/language-...)
For other questionnaires developed for the same workshop, see:
1998
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"In the nature of our design, and our discussion, we rely heavily on Talmy's (1985) notion of lexicalization patterns, in particular his cross-linguistic discussion of systems of motion description. We are interested, for instance, in patterns of semantic conflation (that is, what other semantic information besides 'motion' may be encoded in a verb root) and patterns of semantic distribution (that is, what types of information are encoded in the different morphemes that come together to build a description of a motion event)." (Wilkins et al., 1998: 1).
1996
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''The authors have made available a database containing the results of their use of the questionnaire. There are several versions of the database available. [...]
Description (by the authors) of the goal of the StressTyp project:
The goal of StressTyp is to offer a quick entry to the primary and secondary literature on stress systems of the languages of the world. By primary literature we mean grammars and articles that provide descriptions of stress patterns, examples and the like. By secondary sources we refer to theoretical works on stress.
1992
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"Where the language is spoken, its classification, a description of the corpus of data the description is based on and how much of it, when it was collected, who the principal language helpers were, etc., references to anything else written on the language, highlight the linguistically interesting features of the language." (Roberts, 1992: 1)