South American Grambank

South American Grambank: Grambank is one of the most exciting initiatives currently being implemented by the Department of Linguistics and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Grambank is the largest linguistic database ever conceived. It is based on a list of 198 logically independent grammatical features, and its current coverage exceeds 2,000 languages. As part of this project, we have created the first Grambank group in Latin America, under the leadership of Roberto Zariquiey. This new Grambank group will include graduate students from Peru and Chile and is currently encoding the grammars of 80 South American languages. This is expected to increase the visibility and coverage of South American languages in this important database, thereby contributing to global knowledge about the past and present of these languages. Funded by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Research Areas: Computational Linguistics, Databases, and Language Technologies.