SGER: Prototype and Specifications for a Web-based Database of the Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages (SSWL).

语言学家正在努力了解所有人类语言的共同点，同时也在努力了解人类语言之间的差异，以及这些差异的限制是什么。近年来，考虑到的语言数量一直在大幅增加。如此之多，以至于越来越难以跟踪它们，并将这些越来越多的语言提供给该领域的数据、描述和理论含义整合起来。这个数据库的主要目的是为语言学家提供一个工具，使他们能够探索世界语言的各种特性之间的联系，该数据库是在探索性研究特别拨款的支持下设计的。计划中的数据库将从维基百科等开放式系统中获得灵感。它将以这样一种方式构建，即允许世界各地的语言学家向其添加新的语言数据，并着眼于与其他语言数据的互操作性，这些数据被收集、整理和存档，用于类似的目的。

Linguists are working toward understanding what all human languages have in common and, simultaneously, toward understanding the ways in which human languages differ from one another, and what the limits on those differences are. In recent years, the number of languages taken into account has been increasing substantially. So much so that it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of them, and to integrate the data, the descriptions, and the theoretical implications that this ever larger number of languages is feeding into the field.The main purpose of this database, designed with support from this Special Grant for Exploratory Research, will be to provide a tool to linguists which will allow them to explore the connections between the various properties of the world's languages. The planned database will take inspiration from open-ended systems such as Wikipedia. It will be constructed in such a way as to allow linguists from anywhere in the world to add new language data to it, and with an eye toward interoperability with other language data being collected, curated and archived for similar purposes.