Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Encyclopedia of Linguistic Laws

If you're looking for a good time, check out The Encyclopedia of Linguistic Laws, hosted by Universität Trier, and apparently maintained by Gabriel Altmann (!), Reinhard Köhler, and Relja Vulanović (for whom I can't seem to find a homepage). It has a fair number of articles, each covering some linguistic phenomenon (e.g., phoneme frequency, morphological productivity) or some quantitative law or mode of analysis (e.g., lexeme nets). Each article is structured nicely and summarizes recent results from the field (or maybe just the author's results?). Most of the articles list Altmann as an author, so I assume the encyclopedia is his brainchild. Seems like a great place for quickly reviewing results that have been published in venues like Glottometrika and JQL over the years.

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