ИСТИНА

Целью проекта является создание условий для массивного заполнения информации по грамматическому строю языков с привлечением внешних ресурсов (режим crowd-sourcing) и проведения комплекса исследований по заимствованию, наследованию и независимому изменению граммтического строя языков.

"Languages of the World" database of IL RAS has been developed since 1990-s. Since then three versions of the database have been released (the first one - in MS DOS, the second and the third - in MS Windows), one monograph has been published, E. Yaroslavtseva defended her theses for a doctoral degree, over 40 works have been published. The third version of the database (Spring 2013) contains a tree-like description of the grammar structure of languages. In the recent years the structure of the database has gone through a theoretical reconsideration. At the present time the paradigmatic representation of grammar data seems more perspective, both from the point of view of data reliability and from the point of view of further quantitative studies. One of the goals of the present project is to expertly test the paradigmatic description of the "Languages of the World" database of IL RAS, including newly added languages (about 350 languages). We are also planning to prepare the data for a large-scale crowd-sourcing project aimed at filling the "Languages of the World" database of IL RAS with new languages in cooperation with specialists and native speakers from different countries using the Internet. Questionnaires will be created (in Russian and in English) that will make it easier to define the value of each feature of the database. Besides, it is planned to develop the software that will help create, control and fill the database with descriptions of languages. During 2019-2021 we are planning to describe at least 500 languages according to 128 paradigms.

Результаты реализации проекта, которые будут иметь практическую значимость: - Будет создан опросник по всем грамматическим признакам, который позволит дополнять базу данных "Языки Мира" ИЯз РАН новыми языками, привлекая специалистов и носителей языков по всему миру; - Будет выпущена обновленная версия базы данных "Языки Мира" ИЯз РАН (Paradigmatic View) crowd-sourcing. Она станет удобным инструментом для проведения масштабных квантитативных, в т.ч. филогенетических, исследований.