34.2739, Confs: Grammar Writing, Documentation, Data Collection

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Subject: 34.2739, Confs: Grammar Writing, Documentation, Data Collection

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Date: 18-Sep-2023
From: Aimée Lahaussois [aimee.lahaussois at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Grammar Writing, Documentation, Data Collection

Grammar writing, documentation, data collection

Date: 09-Sep-2024 - 10-Sep-2024
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact: Aimée Lahaussois
Contact Email: aimee.lahaussois at cnrs.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics

This section focuses on recent advances in practices underlying
grammar writing, documentation, and data collection, and the
interconnections between them.
Grammar writing is a well-theorized discipline but the subfield of
metagrammaticography is still very young, with questions of how
grammar-writing decisions affect the use made of resulting grammars
(for language comparison, for typology) beginning to come to the fore.
Questions of how grammars are organized and the impact on how the data
is interpreted by readers, of the place of traditionally more marginal
word classes, such as interjections and ideophones, of the place of
diachronic data or commentary in a descriptive (and traditionally
synchronically-oriented) grammar, of what constitutes a representative
dataset for grammar writing of what statements about productivity
actually mean, all represent interesting avenues for research. A
corollary question concerns the reasons for the inherent challenges in
using descriptive grammars when carrying out areal or typological
research.
The push towards open access has shaped grammar-writing, documentation
and data collection in very concrete ways. There is a growing
expectation that examples in grammars and other types of descriptive
documents be accessible through and linked to oral archives, with
time-aligned sound and annotation files; publicly funded institutions
and grant agencies are increasingly insistent that materials be made
available, both in the form of primary data and the associated
analyses, the latter typically through open access grammars (such as
those published by Language Science Press) and open access journals
(such as those focusing on descriptive and methodological questions,
like Language Documentation and Conservation, and typology, like
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads).
Developments in the tools that accompany the descriptive and
documentation process are also undergoing advances: to the traditional
toolkit of word lists and questionnaires we can add stimuli carefully
informed by typological and psycholinguistic advances, as well as
video recordings of field sessions, making it possible to carry out
multimodal studies featuring gesture. Annotation has also been
affected: Despite widespread adoption of the Leipzig Glossing Rules,
which greatly facilitates the accessibility of interlinear glossed
texts, increased consistency of glossed material is needed to make it
usable for language comparison and machine readability. Efforts
towards the automatization of annotation, through methods making it
possible to automatically produce phonemic transcriptions of audio
files in the field, and the use of interlinear glosses to generate
grammars, represent remarkable steps forward. And electronic
grammaticography and its associated methods (which circle back to
changes in expectations about open access of both analyses and data)
will continue to lead to major headway in the production of grammars.
Data collection has been impacted and changed by recent public health
and political crises, which have made it increasingly difficult to
reach some field sites. This has resulted in the development of new
techniques for hybrid fieldwork, and has also increased attention paid
to using legacy data sources on minority languages, often
necessitating collaboration with historians of linguistics for
contextualization.
The section welcomes papers in any of these areas as well as papers
which explore the interconnections between them, particularly those
dealing with these questions from the point of view of under-resourced
languages.

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