PRONOM

PRONOM is a database of pronominal paradigms from a genetically and geographically balanced sample of languages. It includes free pronouns as well as bound verbal and nominal agreement morphology that involves person (e.g., possessive morphology on nouns, verbal subject agreement affixes, etc.). The database was intended to be a representative unbiased sample from the languages of the world. We used the following sampling procedure: we assigned languages and genera from the list of 2,679 languages in the World Atlas of Language Structures to six geographical areas. We then picked forty random genera for each region (the smallest number of genera in any region) and 2 random languages from each genus. This would have resulted in 80 languages per geographical area, however, we had to reduce that number to 64 due to the fact that some genera only had one language in them and other genera only had a few languages which were close dialects of each other. Thus, we ended up with 64*8 = 512 languages. Not all of these have been documented to date! All data within Pronom was compiled by Dr. Pertsova and her students from original sources, such as grammars, dictionaries, and grammatical sketches. This version of the data is used in the paper "A CASE FOR A BINARY FEATURE UNDERLYING CLUSIVITY: THE POSSIBILITY OF ABA." by K.Pertsova to be published in Morphology (2022).