pro.gender.g: Hotbeds of pronominal gender

In IVS-UZH/familybias: Family bias estimates (Bickel in press.)

Description

Language sample on gender distinction in independent pronouns (Siewierska 2005) and residence within a typological hotbed (Nichols 1992). The taxonomic classification is Nichols & Bickel's (2009).

Usage

data(pro.gender.g)

Format

A data frame containing following information about 383 language varieties:

stock

Language family name

mbranch

Major branch name

sbranch

Subbranch name

ssbranch

Sub-subbranch name

lsbranch

Lowest subbranch name

language

Language (dialect/variety) name

SIEGEN2

gender distinction in independent personal pronouns: has_gender vs. no_gender

hot

whether the language resides within a ‘hotbed’ (according to Nichols 1992): outside hotbeds vs. inside hotbeds

References

Nichols, Johanna & Balthasar Bickel, 2009. The AUTOTYP genealogy and geography database: 2009 release. Electronic database, http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~autotyp.

Siewierska, Anna, 2005. Gender distinctions in independent personal pronouns. In Haspelmath, Martin, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The world atlas of language structures, 182–185. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nichols, Johanna, 1992. Linguistic diversity in space and time. Chicago: Thee University of Chicago Press.

Examples

data(vprel.g)

head(vprel.g)

IVS-UZH/familybias documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:37 a.m.