DiACL - Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics
type: Dataset
description: DiACL is an open access database with lexical and typological/morphosyntactic data for historical, comparative and phylogenetic linguistics. It contains data from 500 languages of 18 families, divided into three macro-areas: Eurasia, Pacific, and the Amazon. The database has the following content: 1) Lexical datasets with basic vocabularies (Swadesh lists), 2) Lexical datasets with culture vocabularies, focusing on subsistence system vocabulary, 3) Typological/morphosyntactic datasets including the main types Word Order, Alignment, and Nominal/ Verbal Morphology. DiACL contains data from contemporary and historical languages, and, if possible, reconstructed languages. Data is derived from dictionaries, grammars, or by new fieldwork (in particular data from Caucasus and the Amazon). All data is sourced in scientifically reliable literature. Purpose: The aim of the database is to make datasets for evolutionary and comparative linguistics available open access. The datasets, which are comparative and complete, span over large geographic areas, containing data for typology/morphosyntax and lexicon (basic vocabulary and culture vocabulary). Datasets can be used to investigate spatio-temporal and linguistic comparative correlations. Data has been compiled by analyzing grammars and dictionaries and by means of fieldwork. The population of data into the database is controlled by matrix documents, questionnaires and careful instructions, in order to creat complete and comparable dtasets. The process of population has been supervised by the database editor (Gerd Carling) and language experts for each language group. Cite as: Carling, Gerd (ed.) 2016/2017. Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics Online. (Available at: https://lundic.ht.lu.se/. Accessed on: z.). Data from individual languages should preferably be quoted by their source: NN, NN, NN, NN. Data set: x (basic vocabulary/culture vocabulary/typology), y (language). In: Carling, Gerd (ed.) 2016/2017. Diachronic Atl…
citation: Carling, Gerd (ed.) 2017. Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics Online. Lund University.
conditions of access: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
conditions of access: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
creative work status: completed
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creator: Gerd Carling
  type: Person
  affiliation: Lund University
  family name: Carling
  given name: Gerd
date modified: 2019-12-16
date published: 2017-03-27
keywords: Language and linguistics
keywords: Languages and Literature
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  term code: 602
keywords: Philology
keywords: language documentation
keywords: linguistics
publisher: Lund University
temporal coverage: 2013
version: 1

Lund University
type: Organization
department: Center for Language and Literature

Language and linguistics
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description: Data from linguistic studies, linguistic analysis and sociolinguistics, as well as data on language policies, people's language skills, languages spoken at work and at home, attitudes towards minority languages etc.
term code: MediaCommunicationAndLanguage.LanguageAndLinguistics

Philology
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description: The study of literature in its widest sense, including grammar, etymology, criticism, literary history, language history, linguistic history, systems of writing, and anything else that is relevant to literature or language viewed as literature. Philology as a discipline has both philosophical and scientific overtones.
term code: D010680