Recent posters, papers and presentations
Posters presented at EVOLANG XVI (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 7-10 April 2026):
Crossparametric dependencies and Social Network Analysis. Download the poster
Exploring syntactic diversity across the world’s languages. A novel tool for comparative parametric investigation. Download the poster
The PCM Database: languages
A map of the languages currently under PCM investigation can be accessed here.
Parameter grid
The different versions of the parametric tables used in PCM publications are available in the electronic appendices of previous publications.
Parameter descriptions and parameter setting algorithm
The most recent descriptions of the parameter setting algorithm can be found in the following publications:
1) Crisma, Fabbris, Longobardi and Guardiano (2025). What are your values? Default and asymmetry in parameter states. Appendix 1 (parameter grid) and 2 (parameter list).
2) Guardiano and Stalfieri (2025). Comparazione parametrica e strutture nominali. Alcune note dalla Sicilia galloitalica. Electronic appendix with the data and the parameter grid.
3) Crisma, Guardiano and Longobardi (2020). Syntactic diversity and language learnability. The appendix, that contains a list of short descriptions and manifestations of the 94 parameters used in that work, can be downloaded here.
A short description of the parameters in the dataset(s) used for previous publications/implementations of the PCM can be found as the electronic appendix of Longobardi et al (2013).