HOW TO CITE

Sims-Williams, H., & Baerman, M. (2019). Loss of Inflection Database [Data set]. University of Surrey. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10518626

LICENCE

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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ABSTRACT

The Loss of Inflection Database is a digital repository of examples of language change from 50 languages, each involving the loss of inflectional contrasts within paradigms. Users may filter records by a broad range of parameters to find examples meeting particular criteria, or navigate through a timeline of changes to explore the historical development of individual languages and families.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The database was created for the project Loss of Inflection, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under grant number AH/N00163X/1. This support is gratefully acknowledged. We are also grateful to Hans-Olav Enger, Alexander Krasovitsky, Felicity Meakins, and Nina Sumbatova, for contributing their time and expertise in collecting and analysing data from Scandinavian, Slavic, Australian and Caucasian languages, and to Oliver Bond and Greville Corbett for their help with the design of the database.

METADATA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10518626
Creators: Sims-Williams, Helen; Baerman, Matthew.
Title: Loss of Inflection Database
Publisher: University of Surrey
Year: 2019

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The dataset on which this web application is based can be downloaded in full via Zenodo.

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