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).

GLOWing lectures 2024/2025

The GLOWing lecture series is a part of GLOW’s efforts of community-building, outreach, and strengthening of the generative community. The goal of GLOWing lectures is to provide tools, insights, and puzzles that will bring out why generative linguistics is important, invigorating, and relevant.

This year’s GLOWing topic is “How do we learn about language?” Every lecture will feature a speaker and a discussant working with different methodologies on different subfields. The lecture series aims to present diverse perspectives on linguistic research, how different methodologies and foci guide our theories, and how all of them are important for generative grammar and our understanding of natural language.

The lectures will be held on zoom, a YouTube recording will be made available after each lecture. All GLOW members receive the zoom link via email. If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.

All lectures and further information can be found HERE.

Join us for our first lecture on October 11, featuring Andrew Nevins and Jonathan Bobaljik!

Thank you to Caterina Donati und call for new board members

After many years on the GLOW board, Caterina Donati has decided to step down and give new people the chance to join the board. We thank her again for all her enthusiasm, wisdom, and outstanding support!

There are currently two openings in the board:

  • member with semantic focus
  • member with early career focus

If you are interested in working with the board on developing support for early career researchers or a better integration of semantics into GLOW, please nominate yourself or encourage anyone you know who may be interested in these positions to do so (a quick e-mail is sufficient). Anyone at any stage in their career from anywhere is eligible. The only requirement is that you should love generative linguistics!

Please send your nomination by September 1, 2024. The next step after the nomination stage will then be votes by the membership.

Results: vote on board reorganization

Thanks to everyone who participated in the most recent GLOW vote on the reorganization of the functions and responsibilities of the members of the GLOW board.

The results are as follows (you can also find details here):

  • 94 people (37.45% of all the members) cast a vote.
  • 89 (94.68% of all those who cast a vote) expressed agreement with the proposal.
  • 5 (5.32%) were against it.

The new board assignments can be found HERE