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SketchGrammar Template

This Sketch Grammar Template can be used as a wiki template. As such it allows you to create your own SketchGrammar using the format shown below. To work with such a template might be useful not only for students of linguistics and fieldworkers investigating so far little explored languages, but also for linguists in general and people interested in less-described languages. Not all sections indicated must be covered. Your may start a SketchGrammar at any point, and work on it in an exploratory mode.

To start your SketchGrammar create a new TypeCraft wiki page (see Help pages if you need instructions for creating a page) which you call "SketchGrammar for [your language]" and insert the string: {{subst:SketchGrammar}} on top of that page.

Essential is that certain claims that you make in your SketchGrammar about the described language are supported by annotated data from the TypeCraft database.

Finally, the format of the SketchGrammar is not written in stone. It is very much work in progress. We are thankful for suggestions. Please use the discussion page for this page to leave your comment.


SketchGrammar Template


Introduction

We present a short grammatical sketch of [your language] which has the ISO code [ISO-639-3: ....]

Origin, People, Demography

Writing System

Dialects

General Morphological Characteristics

Word classes

Nouns

Morphology characteristics
Types of nouns

Verbs

Morphology characteristics
infinitives

Adjectives

Adverbs

Adpositions

Conjunctions

Basic constituent orders

Main Clauses, Subordinate Clauses

Other Clauses

Predicate Constructions

Existential, locational and possessive sentences

Tense, aspect and mode

Causatives

Passives

Reflexives and Reciprocals

Questions

Imperatives

Negation

Complex Clauses

Grammatical Instantiation of Theme-Rheme Structures

Notes

References