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Finally! #Grambank is out!
Grambank is a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages.
All available here: grambank.clld.org
Press Release: mpg.de/20186271/0418-…
Grambank is a new database that documents patterns of grammatical variation in over 2400 of the world’s languages.
All available here: grambank.clld.org
Press Release: mpg.de/20186271/0418-…
Our first paper is out now in @ScienceAdvances where we investigate what shapes the structure of languages.
First, we quantify how similar each language is - we find massive differences globally. Only a few of these 2400 languages are identical in the ways they structure info.
First, we quantify how similar each language is - we find massive differences globally. Only a few of these 2400 languages are identical in the ways they structure info.
We cluster languages by similarity which shows that most clustering is driven by related groups of language families:
