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The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database.

David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Marine Vuillermet, Kellen Parker van Dam, Shelece Easterday, Françoise Rose, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kevin Baetscher, Oscar Cocaud-Degrève, Anna Graff and 11 more

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

David InmanInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. atlas.database.team@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-591X
Natalia Chousou-PolydouriInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5693-975X
Marine VuillermetInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Kellen Parker van DamInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Shelece EasterdayDepartment of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Mānoa, USA.
Françoise RoseLaboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4357-1383
Alena Witzlack-MakarevichDepartment of Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Kevin BaetscherInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Oscar Cocaud-DegrèveLaboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
Anna GraffInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7703-3471
Selma HardeggerInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-7150-2822
Thomas C HuberInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Tai HongInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Diana KrasovskayaInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Raphaël LuffroyLaboratoire Dynamique Du Langage, CNRS / Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France.
Nora MuheimInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
André MüllerInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Alexandra NoginaDepartment of Linguistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
David Timothy PerrotInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Melvin SteigerInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Balthasar BickelInstitute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9087-0565

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) CRSII5_183578
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database encodes 265 linguistic features from 17 different featural domains across 220 North and South American languages and 105 languages in the rest of the world. The domains covered in the database were chosen for their regional relevance, and languages were selected on principles of both phylogenetic diversity and geographic coverage. The features of ATLAs are designed to be logically independent, maximizing the reusability of the data for analytical tools which assume logical independence.

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Databases, FactualLanguageLinguisticsAmericasHumans

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PMID40461520
PMCPMC12134142

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