In semantic typology, it is desirable to have quick and easy
access to crosslinguistic elicitations describing stimuli from a
semantic domain. We explore the use of crowdsourcing for
obtaining such data, and compare it with fieldwork data obtained
through in-person elicitations. Despite potential concerns
about the quality of crowdsourced data, we find no difference
in the amount of between-language variation and can
replicate a cognitive modeling experiment using the crowdsourced
data in place of the fieldwork data. Both results suggest
that crowdsourcing elicitations is a viable method for
gathering data for semantic typology and cognitive modeling
