<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">1. for the purpose of illustrating a particular phenomenon: shorter is better, since the relevant part(s) will form a bigger part of the presented material.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">2. -</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">3. -</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">4. brevity, as unproblematic glossing as possible</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">5. clearly 5/5 — if they exist!</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; "><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">Best,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; ">Florian</div> <br> <div class="gmail_signature"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On 1 June 2021 at 19:30:35, Eline Visser (<a href="mailto:eelienu@pm.me">eelienu@pm.me</a>) wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq"><span><div><div></div><div>
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<div>Dear typologists,<br></div>
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<div>I’d like to learn more about how you use the examples given in
grammars. I have just finished a grammar myself, and will continue
to do descriptive work in the future, and this is a topic that
fascinates me. I'm especially interested in knowing if one can
discern the traits of a good example (for typological use). I’d be
glad if some of you could take the time to answer the questions
below, either briefly or elaborately. You can email me the answers.
Also, if there’s is anything published on this topic please do let
me know.<br></div>
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<div>1. In general, do you prefer short (let’s say <1 line) or
longer (> 1 line) examples? Elaborate if you wish.<br></div>
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<div>2. In general, do you have a preference for examples from a
certain genre? Which? You can interpret genre broadly or narrowly,
in which ever way you like: monologue, dialogue, anecdotes,
recipes, hymns, picture-matching tasks…<br></div>
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<div>3. In general, do you have a dispreference for examples of a
certain genre?<br></div>
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<div>4. Say you have two examples that illustrate your point
equally well. What could be a deciding factor for choosing one over
another?<br></div>
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<div>5. Say you can’t find an example that illustrates your point
well. On a scale from 1-5, how likely is it that you will go to the
language’s corpus or the attached texts in the grammar to find one
yourself? (1= very unlikely, 5 = very likely)<br></div>
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<div>6. Anything else you’d like to share about examples in
grammars? Feel free to rant.<br></div>
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<div>Eline<br></div>
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<div>P.s. For those who ordered a Kalamang grammar hard copy -
they’re in Sweden, I’m in Norway, traveling isn’t as easy as I
thought yet, so this takes a bit longer than I thought,
sorry!<br></div>
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