The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides the reader with 160 maps showing the geographical distribution of structural linguistic features. When it was first published in book form in 2005, it was a quite novel type of atlas.

The World Atlas of Language Structures consists of 142 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive order, passive constructions, and 'hand'/'arm' polysemy), each of which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors).

The World Atlas of Language Structures - WALS : Interactive Reference Tool. The Interactive Reference Tool (available on first CD-ROM, later probably on the web) will allow the atlas user to view the maps in a variety of different forms, as well as to combine features, i.e. to generate compound features and to display these as well.

2005年8月1日 · A team of linguists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has now unveiled a new magnum opus which synthesizes the results of thousands of language-specific studies in a new and uniquely accessible way: The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS).

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors.

The World Atlas of Language Structures (often abbreviated as WALS) is primarily a book with 142 world maps showing the global distribution of structural features of language.

The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors (many of …

The atlas contains a wealth of information on the world’s languages, including about data from 2,600 languages and about 140 different structural characteristics. The characteristics covered in WALS range throughout various subdisciplines of linguistics, including aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicography and linguistic categories.