Projektnummer

0056162

Zusammenfassung

The goal of the Referentiality Project (RP) is a contribution to an empirically based theory of reference in natural language. The database is a set of text corpora of twelve endangered languages from all over the world, selected from The Language Archive: Aché/Paraquay, Baure/Bolivien, Beaver/Kanada, Chintang/Nepal, Gorani/Iran, Hocak/USA, Isubu/Kamerun, Savosavo/Solomon Inseln, Sri Lanka Malay/Indien, Teop/Bougainville, Vera'a/Vanuatu, Wichita/USA.The general method is corpus typology, i.e. the theoretically-based extraction of inductive generalizations by a comparative analysis of t...