GLOWing lectures 2025/2026

Our upcoming year of GLOWing lectures will have the umbrella topic “Linguistics and the world we live in” and feature three lectures:

  • Linguistics and Language Communities
  • Linguistics in Education
  • Linguistics and LLMs

Further, we start an additional sub-series of GLOWing lectures called “Languages deserving more attention” where a specialist of one language (family) shows what it fascinating about this language, how it contributes to our generative theories or challenges them. From 2025/26 on, these lectures will take place once a year, usually in the last slot (that is, in May or June).

Stay tuned for more information!

GLOW47: Best student presentations

At GLOW47 we awarded 3 prizes to the best student presentations. The BEST POSTER went to Madhusmitha Venkatesan (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) for her poster on Deriving Adjectives in Heritage Tamil: Stability and Change.

The BEST TALK was shared between Katie McCann (Leipzig University) for her presentation An illusory violation of the affix ordering generalisation in Tigrinya and Anna Laoide-Kemp (University of Edinburgh) for her presentation Preverbal d’ and its interactions with the initial consonant mutation system in Irish.

We congratulate the winners for their outstanding presentations!

Machine readable grammars: help needed

Dear GLOW members,

our colleague Andras Kornai asked for help extending the list of machine readable grammars he collected HERE.

This list, while already representing considerable effort (Hans-Martin Gärtner is to be particularly thanked) is aimed at listing all ONLINE ACCESSIBLE grammars of any language or dialect. There are five columns: ISO code, Author, Title, Genre, and File type. Data is often missing, and sometimes is hard to determine without actually consulting the grammar. Second and later authors’ names are not always capitalized, and other typos may lurk. The file is editable, feel free to fix, emend, add.

Please add only metadata about those grammars that you actually have online or have online access to — physical copies of grammars on your bookshelf are of no interest for this project. Use the last column to denote the file format (pdf, doc, docx, djvu, epub, mobi, tif, ….) but don’t send the grammar itself, just add a new row to this catalog file. Column F is for other “Dublin core” catalog data (year of publication, ISBN, url, …) if you wish to add such, but this is not necessary.

Excluded are grammatical sketches and even monographs that address only a segment of the language “The system of tenses in L” “The nominal system of S” “The syntax of Z”.  Only grammars written with the intention of providing a full grammatical description are of interest. There is no restriction on theoretical framework, the language the grammar is written in, and we all know that completeness is an unreachable ideal, but the grammar should aim at comprehensiveness (think of the LSA monographs of old, the Croom Helm Descriptive Grammar Series, or more recently, the LangSci Press Comprehensive Grammar Library).