%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Lesage, Jakob
%A Haynie, Hannah J.
%A Skirgård, Hedvig
%A Weber, Tobias
%A Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena
%+ Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Overlooked data in typological databases: What grambank teaches us about gaps in grammars : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000C-A35C-5
%D 2022
%Z Review method: peer-reviewed
%B 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
%Z date of event: 2022-06-20 - 2022-06-25
%C Marseille
%X Typological databases can contain a wealth of information beyond the collection of linguistic properties across languages. This paper<br>shows how information often overlooked in typological databases can inform the research community about the state of description of<br>the world’s languages. We illustrate this using Grambank, a morphosyntactic typological database covering 2,467 language varieties and<br>based on 3,951 grammatical descriptions. We classify and quantify the comments that accompany coded values in Grambank. We then<br>aggregate these comments and the coded values to derive a level of description for 17 grammatical domains that Grambank covers<br>(negation, adnominal modification, participant marking, tense, aspect, etc.). We show that the description level of grammatical domains<br>varies across space and time. Information about gaps and uncertainties in the descriptive knowledge of grammatical domains within and<br>across languages is essential for a correct analysis of data in typological databases and for the study of grammatical diversity more<br>generally. When collected in a database, such information feeds into disciplines that focus on primary data collection, such as<br>grammaticography and language documentation.
%K Less-Resourced/Endangered Languages, Linked Data, Typological Databases
%B Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022)
%P 2884 - 2890
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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