<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interesting that Sebastian and Martin both refer to “grammars” — typically<div class="">books, articles, theses, etc that mainly focus on syntax, rather than phonetics,</div><div class="">phonology, semantics, lexicon, and all the other areas of typological variation</div><div class="">across languages. Haralds’s collection is much broader than might be indicated by </div><div class="">it being described as a “collection of grammars” and includes research and </div><div class="">publications in many other areas, including historical and comparative linguistics.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">…. and copyright status is an issue not only with the “languagestuff” site.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 10, 2018, at 6:22 AM, Martin Haspelmath <<a href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de" class="">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">One specific issue has been partly addressed by ALT:<br class=""><br class="">On 03.09.18 08:17, Sebastian Nordhoff wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> From an infrastructural point of view, it is interesting that the field<br class="">at large relies on one single individual (Harald Hammarström) to a large<br class="">extent. His collection of grammars is widely shared, he is consulted as<br class="">a last resort, and an openly available version of his grammar collection<br class="">is a frequent request.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">ALT has a list of links to freely available grammars:<br class=""><a href="http://www.linguistic-typology.org/resources.html" class="">http://www.linguistic-typology.org/resources.html</a><br class=""><br class="">(It would be good if there were a volunteer who would be willing to keep it up to date.)<br class=""><br class="">In addition, there's currently a large collection of grammars at the following site (though sometimes with unclear copyright status):<br class=""><br class="">https://spraakochlunnefaaglar.tumblr.com/languagestuff<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Martin<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath@shh.mpg.de)<br class="">Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History<br class="">Kahlaische Strasse 10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class="">D-07745 Jena<br class="">&<br class="">Leipzig University<br class="">IPF 141199<br class="">Nikolaistrasse 6-10<br class="">D-04109 Leipzig<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Lingtyp mailing list<br class="">Lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br class="">http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class=""><div class="">Ian Maddieson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Department of Linguistics</div><div class="">University of New Mexico</div><div class="">MSC03-2130</div><div class="">Albuquerque NM 87131-0001</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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