vprel.g: Relative clause position and word order

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

Description

Language sample on relative clause position and word order from Dryer (2005a,2005b) linked to the genealogical classification of Nichols & Bickel (2009).

Usage

data(vprel.g)

Format

A data frame containing following information on 506 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

DRYSOV4

word order in respect to the position of the verb, final vs non_final

DRYREL0

order of the relative clause in the relation tot he noun, NRel vs RelN

References

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

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005a. Order of Relative Clause and Noun. In Haspelmath, Martin, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The world atlas of language structures, 182–185. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Dryer, Matthew S. 2005b. Order of Subject, Object and Verb. In Haspelmath, Martin, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, & Bernard Comrie (eds.) The world atlas of language structures, 182–185. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Examples

data(vprel.g)

head(vprel.g)

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