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Wow, that's fantastic, Mark! Thanks so much to everyone involved for
setting this up – this is something that I've dreamed of for quite
some time.<br>
<br>
So Grammar Watch is really a "Barrier-free Grammar Collection" now –
providing a basis for grammar survey work that is independent from
physical libraries or expensive institutions.<br>
<br>
Curating it will involve work, but this is definitely worth it, I
think.<br>
<br>
Kudos to ALT's Executive Committee, and especially to Mark, Ljuba,
Daniel and Sterre (who seem to be some of they key people behind
it).<br>
<br>
Finally, if you're not using Zotero yet: For me, this was the
application that changed my life more than any other application
over the last 15 years.<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 10.03.21 um 21:07 schrieb
Dingemanse, Mark:<br>
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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p><br>
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<p>For a long time, the ALT website hosted an
irregularly updated list of openly available grammars known as
Grammar Watch, which started under the auspices of Frans Plank
and Martin Haspelmath. ALT would like to continue this service
in a more user-friendly and sustainable way. Therefore, we
have rebooted Grammar Watch as a living bibliography whose aim
is to make it easy to find, read and cite open access
grammatical descriptions. You can find it here: <a
href="https://linguistic-typology.org/grammarwatch/"
class="OWAAutoLink" moz-do-not-send="true">https://linguistic-typology.org/grammarwatch/</a></p>
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<p>LingTyp readers will know there are plenty of
bibliographic resources online, chief among them the
formidable Glottolog. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">The aim
of Grammar Watch is more modest: we aim not for exhaustive
coverage but </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for a
manually curated collection that boosts the visibility and
usage of high quality open access grammars</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">.
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One use case we foresee
is to make it maximally easy for students to draw from a
curated collection of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">recent
grammars directly available for download.<br>
<br>
The rebooted Grammar Watch also features an open <a
href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2459672/grammar_watch/library"
class="OWAAutoLink" moz-do-not-send="true">
Zotero group library</a> that users can also tap into
directly if they want. Contributing new grammars to the
collection is also possible in the same way; details are on
the Grammar Watch 'Contribute' page. We hope the new format
allows more users to contribute, and helps
more researchers to find good open access grammars.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the ALT Executive
Committee,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mark Dingemanse</span></p>
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