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142ou so much, all of you!</p> 143<p>We are also indebted to our student assistants in Leipzig, Martin Mehlberg, Tamar Khizanishvili, Luise Kempf, and Thomas Hanke, as well as the University of Leipzig computer scientists Christian Wolff, Georg Apitz, Marek Mahn, Christian Heinrich and Gerrit Mattausch.</p> 144<p>The Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Director Bernard Comrie) provided the funding for the editors between 1999 and 2005, funded several meetings of a subset of the authors, and allowed some of them to come to Leipzig for a more extended period to work on their contributions. We are especially grateful to Julia Cissewski, Claudia Büchel, and Peter Fröhlich for creating a perfect working environment.</p> 145<p>This is also the place to acknowledge the help of the language experts who patiently answered many questions from the authors, their main reward being that the maps of the atlas now show many more dots for âtheirâ language than would otherwise have been possible. In addition, the Ethnologue staff kindly provided us with a text file of the Ethnologue genealogical classification.</p> 146<p>The research for Matthew Dryerâs chapters was supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grants 410-810949, 410-830354, and 410-850540, and by National Science Foundation (United States) Research Grant BNS-9011190.</p> 147<p>Matthew Dryer also wants to acknowledge a number of people who over the years worked on his typological database project as graduate student research assistants. These include, at the University of Alberta: Janice Adlington, Sandra Bellan, Somsak Boonsathorn, Diane Dennis, Randy Harris, Barbara Jacennik, Betty Karpinski, Murray Munro, Martha Smith, and Grace Wiebe; at UCLA: Mercedes Pérez; and at the University at Buffalo: Isao Honda, Anna Keusen (Margetts), Monica Madera, Heather Weber, and Byong-Seon Yang. Rob Malouf helped him programme his own database, which was the proto-type of WALS.</p> 148<p>Thanks also to anyone else that we have inadvertently overlooked.</p> 149<p>The second phase of work on WALS began in 2007, when we started looking into possibilities of publishing WALS online. We are grateful to Oxford University Press (especially senior editor John Davey) for giving permission to do so, and we were very happy that the Max Planck Digital Library provided the crucial resources.</p> 150<p>First and foremost, we have to thank Robert Forkel in Munich, the main computational mind behind WALS Online, who came up with idea after brilliant idea and never ran out of patience. But important work was also done by Frank Schulz and Vera Osswald, as well as Christina Weyher and Malte Dreyer in the background. We also thank Laurent Romary for getting the ball rolling at the outset.</p> 151<p>In Leipzig, we had more help from Claudia Schmidt and student assistant Yan Luo.</p> 152<p>Finally, we thank all those WALS users that pointed out errors and gave us suggestions for improvement. We look forward to getting more feedback in the future.</p> 153<p>Leipzig, 23 December 2010</p> 154<p>Matthew S. Dryer and Martin Haspelmath</p> 155 156 157 158 159 </div> 160 </div> 161 <div class="row-fluid"> 162 <div class="span12"> 163 <footer> 164 165 <div class="row-fluid" style="padding-top: 15px; border-top: 1px solid black;"> 166 <div class="span3"> 167 <a href="https://www.eva.mpg.de" 168 title="Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig"> 169 <img width="80" src="https://wals.info/clldmpg-static/minerva.png" /> 170 </a> 171 </div> 172 <div class="span6" style="text-align: center;"> 173 174 <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"> 175 <img alt="License" style="border-width:0" src="https://wals.info/clld-static/images/cc-by.png" /> 176 </a> 177 <br /> 178
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