Digital Grammaticography

Theoretical work on digital grammaticography:

• Citation: Nordhoff (2008) Nordhoff, S. (2008). Electronic reference grammars for typology: Challenges and solutions. Language Documentation \\& Conservation, 2(2). 296–324.
• contributions in Citation: Nordhoff (2012) Nordhoff, S. (2012). Electronic Grammaticography. University of Hawai'i Press.
  • Citation: Drude (2012) Drude, S. (2012). Digital Grammars: Integrating the Wiki/CMS approach with Language Archiving Technology. InNordhoff, S. (Eds.), Electronic Grammaticography. (pp. 160–178).University of Hawai'i Press.
  • Citation: Nordhoff (2012) Nordhoff, S. (2012). The grammatical description as a collection of form-meaning-pairs. InNordhoff, S. (Eds.), Electronic Grammaticography. (pp. 33–62).University of Hawai'i Press.

Implemented grammars:

• Citation: Thieberger, Musgrave & al. (2018) (N.A.). (2018). Nunggubuyu Grammar Online. Retrieved from http://users.monash.edu.au/%5Ctextasciitilde%20smusgrav/Nunggubuyu/ , as described in Citation: Musgrave & Thieberger (2012) Musgrave, S. & Thieberger, N. (2012). Language description and hypertext: Nunggubuyu as a case study. InNordhoff, S. (Eds.), Electronic Grammaticography. (pp. 63–77).University of Hawai'i Press.
• Citation: Lau (2022) Lau, J. (2022). Abesabesi Grammar. Retrieved from https://abesabesi.cceh.uni-koeln.de , as described in Citation: Lau (2021) Lau, J. (2021). A Digital Reference Grammar of Abesabesi: Towards a data format for digital reference grammars  (phdthesis). University of Cologne
• Citation: Junker (2000) (N.A.). (2000). The Interactive East Cree Reference Grammar. Retrieved from https://www.eastcree.org/cree/en/grammar/

There was also the now-defunct GALOES ( Citation: Nordhoff, 2007 Nordhoff, S. (2007). The grammar authoring system GALOES.; Citation: Nordhoff, 2007 Nordhoff, S. (2007). Grammar writing in the Electronic Age.; Citation: Nordhoff, 2007 Nordhoff, S. (2007). Growing a grammar with GALOES.)

My approach

• linguistic linked data ( Citation: Chiarcos, Nordhoff & al., 2012 Chiarcos, C., Nordhoff, S. & Hellmann, S. (2012). Linked Data in Linguistics. Springer. ), implemented in the CLDF/CLLD ecosystem
• descriptive prose is written in markdown, compiled to different (customizable) output formats with pylingdocs
  • this includes PDF (via LateX) and HTML
• linguistic data are encoded as a CLDF dataset (example)
  • using my cldf-ldd component collection
  • converters for *box and FLEx are available
• …and served as a CLLD app (example)
  • CLLD plugins for corpora, morphology
  • rendered with a markdown plugin and stylized with a document plugin

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