The AUTOTYP database

AUTOTYP is a large-scale research program with goals in both quantitative and qualitative typology. This release contains the full raw data from the AUTOTYP databases along with metadata, aggregated datasets and aggregation scripts. 

Please cite as:

Bickel, Balthasar, Nichols, Johanna, Zakharko, Taras, Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena, Hildebrandt, Kristine, Rießler, Michael, Bierkandt, Lennart, Zúñiga, Fernando & Lowe, John B. 2022. The AUTOTYP database (v1.0.0). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5931509

This is a completely new release, radically overhauled from the earlier 0.1.x version, and focuses on usability, documentation, and completeness. New features include:

• Over 260 typological variables that describe 1319 languages across approximately 260,000 data points or, together with the derived (aggregated) data, over 1,700,000 data points.
• New naming conventions for datasets and variables, focusing on usability and clarity.
• Language name and Glottolog code now accompany every dataset, so each dataset is a self-standing table of a typological variable (but can also be linked to any and all of the others via the internal language ID).
• Published data now includes the raw exported database data as well as derived aggregated tables.  All aggregation scripts used to compute derived data are published as well.
• New R and JSON exports for users who prefer those environments.

For a complete list of major new features see:

       https://github.com/autotyp/autotyp-data/blob/v1.0.0/CHANGES-1.0.0.md

For general information about the database:

   https://github.com/autotyp/autotyp-data/blob/v1.0.0/readme.md