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        1.    Sebastian Nordhoff, Electronic Grammaticography
Message 1: Electronic Grammaticography
Date: 21-May-2010
From: Sebastian Nordhoff <sebastian_nordhoffeva.mpg.de>
Subject: Electronic Grammaticography
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Electronic Grammaticography

Date: 11-Feb-2011 - 12-Feb-2011 Location: Hawaii, USA Contact: Sebastian Nordhoff Contact Email: sebastian_nordhoffeva.mpg.de Meeting URL: http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/conference/11-grammaticography2011

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation

Meeting Description:

This meeting wants to bring together field linguists, computer scientists, and publishers with the aim of exploring production and dissemination of grammatical descriptions in electronic/hypertextual format

Please Note:

The conference on Electronic Grammaticography announced on this list last month will be relocated from Leipzig to Hawai'i, where it will run as a workshop under the umbrella of the 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC2, http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011/index.html). ICLDC2 will be held February 11-13, 2011 at the Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center on the University of Hawai'i at Manoa campus. The exact date of the workshop as well as more details will be announced in due course.

The reason for this relocation is that I have received many comments from people wanting to attend both events and having them at the same venue will make this considerably easier.

Topic and invited speakers remain unchanged. See the programme below. I wish to thank all participating institutions and people for making this short-notice relocation possible.

For long a step-child of lexicography, the domain of grammaticography has received growing interest in the recent past, especially in what concerns lesser studied languages. At least three volumes contain parts dealing with this question (Ameka et al. 2006, Gippert et al. 2006, Payne & Weber 2007). At the same time, advances in information technology mean that a number of techniques become available which can present linguistic information in novel ways. This holds true for multimedial content on the one hand (see e.g. Barwick & Thieberger 2007), but also so called content-management-systems (CMS) provide new possibilities to develop, structure and maintain linguistic information, which were unknown when the idea of an electronic grammar was first put to print in Zaefferer (1998). Recent publications in grammaticography often allude to the possibilities of hypertext grammars (Weber 2006, Evans & Dench 2006), but these possibilities are only starting to get explored theoretically (Good 2004, Nordhoff 2008) and in practice (Nordhoff 2007).

This conference will bring together experts on grammar writing and information technology to discuss the theoretical and practical advantages hypertext grammars can offer.

Invited Speakers:

Nick Evans (Australian National University) Christian Lehmann (Universität Erfurt) Jeff Good (University of Buffalo)

References:

Ameka, F. K., A. Dench & N. Evans (eds.) (2006). Catching Language - The Standing Challenge of Grammar Writing. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Barwick, L. & N. Thieberger (eds.) (2006). Sustainable Data from Digital Fieldwork. Sydney: University of Sydney. Gippert, J., N. Himmelmann & U. Mosel (eds.) (2006). Essentials of Language Documentation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Good, J. (2004). ''The Descriptive Grammar as a (Meta)database''. Paper presented at the EMELD Language Digitization Project Conference 2004. [paper] Nordhoff, S. (2007). ''Grammar Writing in the Electronic Age''. Paper presented at the ALT VII conference in Paris. Nordhoff, S. (2008). ''Electronic Reference Grammars for Typology - Challenges and Solutions''. Journal for Language Documentation and Conservation, 2(2):296-324. Payne, T. E. & D. Weber (eds.) (2007). Perspectives on Grammar Writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Zaefferer, D. (ed.) (1998). Deskriptive Grammatik und Allgemeiner Sprachvergleich. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

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