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!