concepticon
World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs
The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs (WATP) is a geo-typological database of morphologically related transitivity pairs such as ak-u ‘to open (intransitive)’: ak-e-ru ‘to open (transitive)’ in Japanese, which participate in the causative alternation (doa-ga aita [The door opened] vs. Taro-ga doa-o aketa [Taro opened the door]). It consists of primary data from about 80 languages contributed by about 50 researchers, which can be downloaded for research purpose.
- http://watp.ninjal.ac.jp/en/
- http://watp.ninjal.ac.jp/en/downloads/
TODO:
- [ ] link
- [ ] add bibliography
- [ ] add notes
- [ ] thank Martin for version 1.1
Hey,
went ahead and crawled all the files (in case you haven't done that already, anyway). As far as I can tell one list is missing/the link is not correct:
- http://watp.ninjal.ac.jp/en/downloads/Amdo_Tibetan/
All the other 81 files can be found here: Transitivity_Pairs.zip
Nice. They really only have those 20x pairs, right? But it's a start, and I think all we need for concepticon is adding the concepts, ideally providing URLs to the website for each pair, thinking of how to illustrate connetions between the pairs (e.g., by adding a causative column, or by adding a number similar to a cognate-id in an extra column, so that concepts belonging to the same pair will have the same number, maybe additional info, which is causative, which not). I'm not sure how to do this in concrete, but maybe you can come up with a first proposal and I'll try to help later (or approve)?
Sure, will do! I think what you've outlined (the relational approach with numbers corresponding to the cognate IDs) is neat.