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@inproceedings{item_3493749,
title = {{Overlooked data in typological databases: What grambank teaches us about gaps in grammars}},
author = {Lesage, Jakob and Haynie, Hannah J. and Skirg{\aa}rd, Hedvig and Weber, Tobias and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena},
language = {eng},
isbn = {979-10-95546-72-6},
publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
year = {2022},
abstract = {{Typological databases can contain a wealth of information beyond the collection of linguistic properties across languages. This paper{\textless}br{\textgreater}shows how information often overlooked in typological databases can inform the research community about the state of description of{\textless}br{\textgreater}the world{\textquoteright}s languages. We illustrate this using Grambank, a morphosyntactic typological database covering 2,467 language varieties and{\textless}br{\textgreater}based on 3,951 grammatical descriptions. We classify and quantify the comments that accompany coded values in Grambank. We then{\textless}br{\textgreater}aggregate these comments and the coded values to derive a level of description for 17 grammatical domains that Grambank covers{\textless}br{\textgreater}(negation, adnominal modification, participant marking, tense, aspect, etc.). We show that the description level of grammatical domains{\textless}br{\textgreater}varies across space and time. Information about gaps and uncertainties in the descriptive knowledge of grammatical domains within and{\textless}br{\textgreater}across languages is essential for a correct analysis of data in typological databases and for the study of grammatical diversity more{\textless}br{\textgreater}generally. When collected in a database, such information feeds into disciplines that focus on primary data collection, such as{\textless}br{\textgreater}grammaticography and language documentation.}},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)}},
pages = {2884--2890},
address = {Marseille},
note = {13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)},
}