[Lingtyp] Why cite non-Latin-script literature ONLY in Latin script?

[Eitan Grossman]

Hi all,

The former MPI Leipzig Generic Style Rules
<https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/past-research-resources/resources/generic-style-rules.html>,
which were made by linguists (Martin? Martin and others?) for linguists,
say the following:

If the title is not only in a different language, but also in a different
script, it may be given in the original script, in addition to the
transliteration (following it in parentheses). Likewise, the name of the
author may be given in the original script, as follows:

Plungian, Vladimir A. (Плунгян, Владимир А.) 2000. Obščaja morfologija:
Vvedenie v problematiku (Общая морфология: Введение в проблематику)
[General morphology: Introduction to the issues]. Moskva: URSS.

Chen, Shu-chuan (陳淑娟). 2013. Taibei Shezi fangyan de yuyin bianyi yu
bianhua (台北社子方 言的語音變異與變化) [The sound variation and change of Shezi dialect
in Taipei city]. Language and Linguistics 14(2). 371–408.

And here <https://langsci.github.io/gsr/GenericStyleRulesLangsci.pdf> is
the updated abbreviated version used by Language Science Press, which says
the same thing. It might be nice to let publishers know about the Generic
Style Rules, since having standards in such things can make life easier.


Best,

Eitan



Eitan Grossman
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Chair, Department of Linguistics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel: +972 2 588 3809
Fax: +972 2 588 1224


On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 10:38 AM Christian Lehmann <
christian.lehmann at uni-erfurt.de> wrote:

> This is just one example of a pretty large set of requirements imposed on
> authors by publishers which run against the interests of the readers of the
> work and, in the last resort, of the scientific discipline. To me it seems
> okay for any member of this list to articulate such a problem and to ask
> for support by the rest of the list. In some cases, discussion may show
> that the requirement is based on good reasons, so there is nothing to be
> done about it. In other cases, the result may be that a large majority of
> the discussants on this list shares the original reporter's critical view.
> In such a case, that person should have the right to say publicly that such
> and such was the majority opinion in a discussion of the LingTyp list.
>
> In my view, the case Ian Joo has raised belongs in the latter category.
>
> Christian
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