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The website for our Dogon linguistics project (West Africa) is primarily focused on lexicon, but I have added a page including several "typological discussions", briefly going over major grammatical features of the Dogon languages we have studied to date, and indicating differences among these languages (micro-typology). Hopefully, typologists will find an informal family-level interface useful. Further detail on any given issue can be gleaned from the published grammars (currently: Jamsay, Mouton series) and unpublished drafts of grammars-to-be (on our site under "Manuscripts" tab). Some parts of the site are brand new, and all will continue to grow organically; two project members are now in the field working on other Dogon languages. We will also eventually incorporate maps, texts, audio, and other features. I will add a few more "typological discussions" in the next couple of months.<BR>
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<A href="http://dogonlanguages.org/typological_discussions/index.cfm">http://dogonlanguages.org/typological_discussions/index.cfm</A><BR>
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At the bottom of the "home" page for the site are a grammar template (with chapter and section numbers and comments about what information to include) and a lexical elicitation spreadsheet (English & French glosses). Both are customized for Dogon but might be of some interest to other field linguists.<BR>
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I would welcome feedback about our site, and inquiries about Dogon languages including fieldwork possibilities (email to me directly). Separately, it might be good to have a general discussion on the lingtyp list about how best to construct such language family sites.<BR>
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In principle the technology we've developed could be used for other language families, but developing a new site would require some labor. I myself would like to do something along these lines for Songhay and perhaps Berber. The creator and administrator of the Dogon site is computational linguist Steve Moran (<A href="mailto:stiv@uwashington.edu">stiv@uwashington.edu</A>), and he is better positioned than I am to answer technical inquiries.<BR>
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--Jeff Heath (U Michigan, Ann Arbor)<RTE_TEXT></RTE_TEXT><BR></body>
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