Português
Grammar-writing is a millennia-old activity, and its history has long been a central concern in the historiography of linguistics. Yet this history has typically been told through the lens of ‘traditions’, such as Greco-Latin, Arabic, Sanskritic, missionary, structuralist, generative, rather than by the concrete tools grammarians actually used to describe language. This proposed workshop adopts a resource-oriented approach to grammar writing, focusing on the tools of language description, their history, and their subsequent development. We understand ‘resources’ broadly, spanning the full arc of grammar-writing practice. This could include, among other things:
– input resources: the corpora, whether oral, textual, or digital, on which a grammar is based; and elicitation tools, including grammatical and semantic questionnaires;
– categorial apparatus: terminological choices and their applicability across languages; parts of speech and morphosyntactic categories;
– generalizing resources: the formulation of rules, including their scope, exceptions, and the metalinguistic conventions used to state them;
– presentational resources: the selection and structuring of examples; glossing conventions; orthographic and transcription systems; paradigms and templates for inflection and derivation, and the visual and tabular devices (trees, paradigm tables, …) used to display them.
The workshop will consider a broad spectrum of cases, ranging from languages with long-standing traditions of grammaticography to the documentation of under-described and lesser-studied languages. In addition, the workshop welcomes historiographic perspectives on very recent developments in grammar-writing, such as the integration of grammars with electronic corpora and annotated databases, the emergence of electronic or born-digital grammars as a distinct textual form.
– input resources: the corpora, whether oral, textual, or digital, on which a grammar is based; and elicitation tools, including grammatical and semantic questionnaires;
– categorial apparatus: terminological choices and their applicability across languages; parts of speech and morphosyntactic categories;
– generalizing resources: the formulation of rules, including their scope, exceptions, and the metalinguistic conventions used to state them;
– presentational resources: the selection and structuring of examples; glossing conventions; orthographic and transcription systems; paradigms and templates for inflection and derivation, and the visual and tabular devices (trees, paradigm tables, …) used to display them.
The workshop will consider a broad spectrum of cases, ranging from languages with long-standing traditions of grammaticography to the documentation of under-described and lesser-studied languages. In addition, the workshop welcomes historiographic perspectives on very recent developments in grammar-writing, such as the integration of grammars with electronic corpora and annotated databases, the emergence of electronic or born-digital grammars as a distinct textual form.