A new free online resource for linguists: Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages. I haven't had time to play around with it, but the list of contributors is impressive.Money quote:
SSWL is a searchable database that allows users to discover which properties (morphological, syntactic, and semantic) characterize a language, as well as how these properties relate across languages. This system is designed to be free to the public and open-ended. Anyone can use the database to perform queries.
Emphasis added (yes, that's for you LDC, haha).
(HT WordAficionada via Twitter #linguistics)
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Chris,
If this is what you are after why not agitate for Matthew Dryer to open up his db to the web?
Haha, I've seen Mathew's "database". It's a 5K page word document on a 1987 Macintosh SE, hehe. Okay, I tease, it's not that bad.
But in fairness, he has participated significantly in The World Atlas of Language Structures.
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