The Universals Archive. Description Within the typology programme of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1996-2001, the remit of the project "Sprachbaupläne" was to collect and document linguistic universals that have been suggested in the relevant literature, in particular those of an implicational kind ("If a language has property [unit, category, rule, construction, pattern, ...]
X, then it will also have Y"). The main result of this project is The Universals Archive, since 2002 maintained with the support of the Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft of the Universität Konstanz. The Universals Archive is available in the form of a searchable archive, enabling its on-line users to retrieve universals in terms of any of the individual words or combinations of words that occur in their formulation or in their documentation. It is also possible just to browse through the Universals Archive. For a more detailed description, see The Universals Archive: A Brief Introduction for Prospective Users. Das grammatische Raritätenkabinett. Ancient Language Resources Online. Linguistic and Biological Diversity Overlap—But Why? In the early 21st century biodiversity worldwide is sharply decreasing, with annual losses of plant and animal species estimated to be 1,000 times greater than historic rates.
As the world is becoming less biologically diverse, it is also becoming less linguistically diverse. Some linguists now predict that 50-90% of the world’s languages will disappear by the end of this century. It has been noticed for some time that biological diversity and linguistic diversity tend to occur in the same places, giving rise to the notion of biocultural diversity. However, many previous studies on this topic suffered from limited spatial precision. Nor did they account convincingly for the observed correlation. Gorenflo and colleagues focus on so-called biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas (see map). Several theories have been proposed to account for this strong correlation between biological and linguistic diversity. [This article was originally posted on GeoCurrents.info]
Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 March 1. Blood[edit] Why isn't blood pronounced like brood (for example)?
I don't think it's a dialect thing, it's always pronounced the same way. 212.201.71.43 (talk) 05:02, 1 March 2009 (UTC) Phonological history of English high back vowels#Foot-strut split has all the answers. --Kjoonlee 05:24, 1 March 2009 (UTC) In short, it used to be. Breendonk vs. Yes, 'donck' is a variant spelling. Two questions about German pronouns[edit] 1. 2. Many thanks. Others will come up with better answers than me, but until they do: It is Ihnen because it should be in the dative. Hope that helps, - Jarry1250 (t, c) 11:35, 1 March 2009 (UTC) But if wünschen takes the dative, doesn't that govern the case of the entire sentence? Wünschen is what's known as a ditransitive verb: it takes two objects, one in the dative (Ihnen) and one in the accusative (einen schönen Tag).
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