European Science Foundation

Programme in Language Typology

Eurotyp

Committee on Computation and Standardization

Dik Bakker, Östen Dahl, Martin Haspelmath,
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm,
Christian Lehmann, Anna Siewierska

Eurotyp Guidelines

Central Coordination: Prof. Dr. Ekkehard König Institut für Englische Philologie (WE 2) FB Neuere Fremdsprachliche Philologien Freie Universität, Gosslerstr. 2-4 D - 14195 Berlin

Fondation Européenne de la Science 1, quai Lezay Marnésia F - 67080 Strasbourg

(Web version by Rob Goedemans)

0. Contents

1. European languages

1.1. Information on languages

1.2. Genetic affiliation

1.3. Abbreviations of languages

1.4. Language index

2. Terminology

2.1. General format for terms and definitions

2.2. Abbreviations of terms

3. Glossing

3.1. Glossing principles

3.2. Abbreviations of grammatical category labels

4. Primary linguistic data

4.1. File structure

*4.2. Tagging: Coding the linguistic structure of a text

5. Questionnaires

5.1. General observations and guidelines

5.2. Elicitation questionnaires

5.3. Analytical questionnnaires

5.4. Survey of questionnaires used in Eurotyp

6. Processing analytical linguistic data

6.1. Coding a linguistic domain

6.2. The representational language

7. Alphabets and character sets

7.1. Transcription tables

7.2. Character coding systems in use

7.3. Coding diacritics and special characters

8. Eurotyp publications style sheet

Style Sheet for Authors and Editors Preparing Conversion Copy

9. Bibliographic entries

9.2. Example entries

* to be filled in

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