<div dir="ltr">I agree with Martin that Nick Evans' "pan-dialectal grammar" is one to look at, but I would encourage Dr Aiuno and Rasmus Bernand to treat the topic as a proper research question and look seriously at ways to represent the metadata that they wish to include in the grammar, and not to think first of presentational typographic "solutions" like colour coding (which is not a solution if the corpus underlying the grammar is colour coded, and hence not easily computationally accessed and processed). Have a look at the papers in the volume on digital grammar writing by Sebastican Nordhoff (<a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp04-electronic-grammaticography/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/sp04-electronic-grammaticography/</a>) for some ideas, and especially Mike Maxwell's paper, in this instance. Please do not create something like a colour-coded Word document or PDF as your main representational vehicle.<div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 June 2018 at 16:32, Martin Haspelmath <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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A "pan-dialectal" grammar written by a prominent author (former ALT
president) that you may want to have a look at is:<br>
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<div class="m_-219851610655306727csl-entry">Evans, Nicholas D. 2003. <i>Bininj
Gun-wok: A pan-dialectal grammar of Mayali, Kunwinjku and
Kune. 2 vols</i>. (Pacific Linguistics, 541). Canberra:
Australian National University.</div>
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I have no particular recommendation, but personally, I like the idea
of colour coding – I think it's used much less than it could in
technical texts (probably for reasons of typographic conservatism,
not because there are serious functional considerations that speak
against it).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Martin</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div class="m_-219851610655306727moz-cite-prefix">On 15.06.18 15:02, Rasmus Bernander
wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px"><span style="margin:0px" lang="EN-US"><font size="3" color="#000000" face="Calibri">Dear
members
of the Lingtyp list,</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px"><span style="margin:0px" lang="EN-US"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">I’m
currently involved in a project called “Linguistic
Variation as an Indicator of
Historical Relations and Language Contact: A
Comparative grammar of four Mara
Bantu languages (Tanzania)”. The project is funded by
Koneen Säätiö and led by
Dr. Lotta Aunio, Department of Languages, University
of Helsinki. As implied in
the title, the project aims at offering a linguistic
description of four
closely related (yet structurally versatile) Bantu
varieties, Ikoma, Nata,
Isenye and Ngoreme (known collectively as the Western
Serengeti languages).<span style="margin:0px"> </span>More
information about the project can be
found at this homepage: </font><span style="margin:0px"><a href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/mara-project/" target="_blank"><font color="#0563c1">https://blogs.helsinki.fi/<wbr>mara-project/</font></a></span></font></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px"><font face="Calibri"><font size="3"><span style="margin:0px" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000">We are
struggling a bit with the question about the ideal way
of designing the
linguistic description. We would like to ask you
”Humans who read grammars”,
i.e. you researchers who make typological (and/or
comparative and/or specific
theoretical) work and thus have great experience in
reading grammars as well as
extracting information from grammars: What would you
consider being the most
helpful and straightforward way to organize the
structure of a multilectal
grammar of this kind?</font></span><span style="margin:0px;color:black" lang="EN-US"> We would
prefer to find a way to systemize the data
in a manner where we don’t have to prioritize one
variety over the others and
where we can also present the subsystems of the non-main
varieties in a
coherent way.</span><span style="margin:0px" lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"> It seems
that some grammars use color/symbol coding for
different varieties. Do you
consider that helpful? Or do you have other, similar
ideas on how one would
succeed in creating a really clear and comprehensible
comparative grammar?</font></span></font></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px"><span style="margin:0px" lang="EN-US"><font size="3" color="#000000" face="Calibri">Many
thanks
in advance!</font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10.66px"><span style="margin:0px" lang="EN-US"><font size="3" color="#000000" face="Calibri">/Rasmus
Bernander</font></span></p>
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