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).
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