SSWL – Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages

I’ve just come across a very interesting website and resource for linguists called Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages. It allows you to search for the syntactic structures that are part of a specific language system and to compare languages.

So for instance, if you look up Italian, you will find a list of syntactic properties marked by “yes” if they are grammatical in Italian or “no” if they are not. On each of these pages, there is also a list of all the languages included in the site which indicates whether the same property is possible or not in those languages.

Very interesting.

SSWL – Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages