Perception Verb Database (word formation)

This dataset accompanies the following publication:  Norcliffe, E. & Majid, A. 2024. Word formation patterns in the perception domain: A typological study of cross-modal associations. Linguistic Typology, 28 (3), 419-459. doi.org The dataset duplicates the language data stored in the original Perception Verb Database (Perception Verb Database), which accompanied the publication Norcliffe, E & Majid, A. 2024. Verbs of Perception: A quantitative typological study. Language, 100 (1), 81-123. This version includes additional fields that relate to the patterns of word formation that are found in the PVDB (columns 11-15).  The dataset is stored as a .CSV file in long-table format, in which each row corresponds to a unique datapoint (a form-meaning association) within the set of basic perception verbs in the 100 language sample and each cell specifies a single type of data. Columns specify information pertaining to the following fields: AREA: macro-area FAMILY: language family LANGUAGE: language name GLOTTOCODE: glottocode LAT: latitude of language LONG: longitude of language MEANING_SOURCE: meaning of the form as listed in the source MEANING_STANDARDISED: standardised meaning of the form. In most cases these are identical to the source meanings, but in certain cases we recode closely  related synonyms between languages as a single meaning (see Supplementary Materials 2). FORM: form of the word as provided in source. Note that the diacritics and some characters have not always been properly rendered, so the original source should always be consulted to check for accuracy. COMPLEXITY: whether the verb form is morphologically simple or complex. Complex forms include multi-word and morphologically derived expressions. COMPLEXITY_GLOSS: gloss of the constituent parts of complex predicates, as presented in the original source PARTIAL_COLEX_FORM: the source perception verb form which forms a constituent part of a cross-modal derived perception verb. E.g. ma in the derived form gũu ma (odour + hear/feel). TARGET_SOURCE: whether a form is the source verb or a target verb of a cross-modal extension/derivation TARGET_HIERARCHY: whether the target of a cross-modal derivation is lower or higher on the Sense Modality Hierarchy than the source perception verb on which it is based. STRUCTURAL_TYPE: the structural type of the cross-modal derived perception verbs (verb_noun, verb_verb etc). SOURCE: author and date of the original data source. For the full publication reference, consult the supplementary materials. SOURCE_ADDITIONAL: author and date of any additional data source consulted. Entries for columns 1-6 are taken from/standardised according to Glottolog (glottolog.org)