CLICS
+++WARNING: This version of CLICS is outdated and has been superseded by CLICS³, available from http://clics.clld.org+++
CLICS is an online database of synchronic lexical associations
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("colexifications",
see here for more information) in currently 221 language varieties
of the world. Large databases offering lexical information on the world's languages are already
readily available for research in different online sources. However, the information on tendencies of meaning associations they enshrine is not easily extractable from these sources themselves.
This is why CLICS was created. It is designed to serve as a
data source for work in lexical typology, diachronic semantics, and research in cognitive science
that focuses on natural language semantics from the viewpoint of cross-linguistic diversity.
Furthermore, CLICS can be used as a helpful tool to assess the plausibility of semantic connections
between possible cognates in the establishment of genetic relations between languages. Johann-Mattis List1, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-University Marburg Thomas Mayer1, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas, Philipps-University Marburg Anselm Terhalle2, Institue for Romance Philology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Matthias Urban3 Leiden University Center for Linguistics
Release:
1.0
Date:
June 25, 2014
Editors:
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