The Language Portal Dutch Frisian What is The

The Language Portal Dutch / Frisian

What is The Language Portal? A place on the internet where all knowledge about the grammar of Dutch and the grammar of Frisian can be found. In English.

Funding http: //www. nwo. nl/en Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Biggest grant, “NWO-Groot” (NWO-Grand) € 1, 7 million

NWO-Grand subsidy 2 nd time that the subsidy was granted to a project from the Humanities 1 st time that the subsidy was granted to a project from the discipline of linguistics

When? 2011 -2015

Main partners Meertens institute, http: //www. meertens. knaw. nl/cms/en/ Frisian Academy, http: //www. fryske-akademy. nl/index. php? L=2&id=18

Other 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.

What is The Language Portal? A place on the internet where all knowledge about the grammar of Dutch and the grammar of Frisian can be found. In English.

The four West Germanic languages English Frisian Dutch German

Historical affiliation

Grammar of 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 English has Quirk et al: “A comprehensive grammar of the English language” NB: prescriptive. Target group: national. Intended for language professionals

More English Grammars 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

Grammar of Dutch has the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst (ANS). Prescriptive. Target group: national (written in Dutch) http: //ans. ruhosting. nl/

Grammar of Frisian has … nothing that big. There are small grammars like Tiersma (English), Popkema (Dutch).

Language Portal Frisian / Dutch 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.

Grammars of West Germanic languages Prescriptive for language professionals Duden Quirk Scientific for linguists - ANS - Huddle- Language ston & Portal Pullum?

Why didn’t we develop a grammar for language professionals? We applied for it, but NWO didn’t want to pay for it.

If we write a grammar for Frisian 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)

Technically innovative 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-editor http: //www. oxygenxml. com/

Language Portal http: //taalportaal. org/taalportaal/topic/

Other languages? Afrikaans

Subject architecture Dutch

Modern Grammar of Frisian Phonology Morphology Willem Visser Truus de Vries Siebren Dyk Joke Weening Frisian Syntax Eric Hoekstra

Historical linguistics Phonology Morphology Syntax Modern + Frisian Middle ? Frisian Old ? Frisian + + ? ?

Grammar of Minority Languages Language Portal for Welsh? Basque? Scots?

Thanks for your attention! Questions?