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The Language PortalDutch / Frisian
A place on the internet where all knowledge about the grammar of Dutch and the grammar of Frisian can be found. In English.
What is The Language Portal?
http://www.nwo.nl/en
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Biggest grant, “NWO-Groot” (NWO-Grand)
€ 1,7 million
Funding
2nd time that the subsidy was granted to a project from the Humanities
1st time that the subsidy was granted to a project from the discipline of linguistics
NWO-Grand subsidy
2011 -2015
When?
Meertens institute, http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/
Frisian Academy,http://www.fryske-akademy.nl/index.php?L=2&id=18
Main partners
Technical: Institute for Dutch Lexicology,http://www.inl.nl/our-work-and-working-methods
Boards of advisors for each subfield of grammar from all leading universities in the relevant fields of research.
Other partners
A place on the internet where all knowledge about the grammar of Dutch and the grammar of Frisian can be found. In English.
What is The Language Portal?
English Frisian
Dutch German
The four West Germanic languages
Historical affiliation
German has the Duden Grammatik,http://www.duden.de/shop/
NB: prescriptive. Target group: national (written in
German) Who? Language professionals such
as writers, teachers, and so on.
Grammar of German
English has Quirk et al:“A comprehensive grammar of the English language”NB: prescriptive. Target group: national.Intended for language professionals
Grammar of English
Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey Pullum: The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan: Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English
More English Grammars
Dutch has the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst (ANS).
Prescriptive. Target group: national (written in
Dutch) http://ans.ruhosting.nl/
Grammar of Dutch
Frisian has … nothing that big.
There are small grammars like Tiersma (English), Popkema (Dutch).
Grammar of Frisian
Chiefly concerned with what is scientifically interesting.
Is targeted at the international scientific community of linguists.
Duden, Quirk, ANS target the national community of those professionally concerned with language.
Language Portal Frisian / Dutch
Prescriptive for language professionals
Duden
Quirk ANS -
Scientific forlinguists
- Huddle-ston & Pullum?
Language Portal
Language Portal
Grammars of West Germanic languages
We applied for it, but NWO didn’t want to pay for it.
Why didn’t we develop a grammar for language professionals?
… in what language should it be?
Idealistic versus pragmatic arguments
(Note: we have both a Frisian-Dutch dictionary and a Frisian-Frisian one)
If we write a grammar for Frisian language professionals,
The Language Portal has the structure of an XML-database.
The Language Portal is created by an enriched version of the software program Oxygen, an xml-editorhttp://www.oxygenxml.com/
Technically innovative
http://taalportaal.org/taalportaal/topic/
Language Portal
Afrikaans
Other languages?
Subject architecture Dutch
Modern Grammar of Frisian
FrisianSyntax
FrisianPhonolog
y
FrisianMorpholog
y Eric HoekstraSiebren DykJoke Weening
Willem VisserTruus de Vries
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Modern Frisian
+ + +
Middle Frisian
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Old Frisian
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Historical linguistics
Language Portal for Welsh?
Basque?
Scots?
Grammar of Minority Languages
Questions?
Thanks for your attention!