AfBo 2.0 comprises descriptions of 132 cases of affix borrowing, i.e. cases where one language borrowed at least one affix from another language, involving a total of 754 borrowed affixes. It includes an online interface with descriptions of borrowed affixes in terms of their forms and functions, examples of combinations of borrowed affixes with native stems, search functions, maps, and 331 bibliographical references. The entire database underlying AfBo can be downloaded.
AfBo 1.0 was compiled by Frank Seifart between 2007 and 2013 with funding from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology's Department of Linguistics, led by Bernard Comrie. Revisions and additions leading to AfBo 2.0 were compiled under the responsibility of Frank Seifart and Francesco Gardani. AfBo is published as part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data initiative.
The content of this web site, including the downloadable database, is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .