37.474, FYI: METAGRAM Seminar Series on Questions of Grammar-Writing (Hybrid Mode)

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Date: 03-Feb-2026
From: Yvonne Treis [yvonne.treis at cnrs.fr]
Subject: METAGRAM Seminar Series on Questions of Grammar-Writing (Hybrid Mode)


The Metagram seminar (https://htl.cnrs.fr/seminaire-metagram/) is a
monthly seminar on questions of grammaticography and
metagrammaticography. The seminar takes place the second Tuesday of
each month, Feb-May and Sept-Dec, in hybrid mode. It is supported by
the Empirical Foundations of Linguistics infrastructure project.
The seminar is one of two strands within a research project,
“Developing (meta)grammaticographical methods”, coordinated by Aimée
Lahaussois and Yvonne Treis, which centers around the analysis of
features of descriptive grammars and the development of new insights
into grammar-writing practices. Through the project, we explore
questions of metagrammaticography, of interest to both linguists
engaged in language description and typologists who make use of
descriptive grammars.
Linguists who have written significant reference grammars are invited
to discuss their grammaticographical practices and experiences. They
are asked to address a list of topics, covering questions such as
structuring schemes, influences, use of exemplification, integration
of the corpus into the grammar. The seminar focuses on one language
family per year, in order to highlight differences in practices for a
linguistic area.
For spring 2026, the languages of the Trans-Himalayan/Tibeto-Burman
family will be featured.
Spring 2026 Program
- 10 February 2026, 16:00 (CET): Guillaume Jacques on how he wrote his
Grammar of Japhug (2021)
- 10 March 2026 [time to be determined]: Carol Genetti on how she
wrote her Grammar of Dolakha Newar (2007)
- 14 April 2026 [time to be determined]: Shobhana Chelliah
- 12 May 2026 [time to be determined]: Linda Konnerth
Fall Program
- 13 October 2026 [time to be determined]: Marius Zemp
- 10 November 2026 [time to be determined]: Mark Post
- 8 December 2026 [time to be determined]: David Bradley
Place: Université Paris Cité, Grands Moulins campus, Olympe de Gouges
room 533 and Zoom
Registration is obligatory for participation by Zoom, and will be
valid for all 4 meetings per semester:
https://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/tA9qzJZlRvqNG35Deja3dQ
More information and regular updates:
https://htl.cnrs.fr/seminaire-metagram/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Tibeto-Burman



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