Resources Thread

[bradrn]

I was trying to write up something, but in the process I discovered this paper which looks quite comprehensive: https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2022.2157675. It looks like it should answer most of your questions. (I can send you a PDF if you can’t access it.)

I think this resource should be linked to from a “Resources” thread!

[sasasha]

I would like to share a project of mine: palasimi. It's a website with graphs of colexified concepts, similar to those in CLICS and A Conlanger's Thesaurus. It doesn't quite have as much linguistic information as CLICS, but every concept in palasimi is annotated with a short description, which I hope can be of use.

This is awesome, I love it.

[WeepingElf]

I would like to share a project of mine: palasimi. It's a website with graphs of colexified concepts, similar to those in CLICS and A Conlanger's Thesaurus. It doesn't quite have as much linguistic information as CLICS, but every concept in palasimi is annotated with a short description, which I hope can be of use.

This is awesome, I love it.

Seconded.

[bradrn]

I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

[Travis B.]

I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "fun" than the average grammar.

[bradrn]

I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "fun" than the average grammar.

Yes, indeed. The author takes every opportunity to sneer at what he calls ‘Grammaric’ writing which uses too much terminology; I don’t think that’s right, but it is certainly true that the average paper is very dryly written.

(From what I can tell, his background seems to be CS rather than linguistics, which may or may not be a factor.)

[Zju]

I was linked to this impressively accessible grammar of West Greenlandic: https://oqa.dk/assets/aitwg2ED.pdf. It’s a little eccentric in its presentation, but then again West Greenlandic is a little eccentric too, so it works well.

From just reading the first few pages this seems much more "fun" than the average grammar.

Yes, indeed. The author takes every opportunity to sneer at what he calls ‘Grammaric’ writing which uses too much terminology; I don’t think that’s right, but it is certainly true that the average paper is very dryly written.

(From what I can tell, his background seems to be CS rather than linguistics, which may or may not be a factor.)

"I call this kind of technical language ‘Grammaric’ – like ‘Greenlandic’ – because it really does seem like a whole new language one has to learn, in order to learn Greenlandic."

10 pages later

*starts talking about morphemes and phonemes*

8 pages later

*introduces readers to graph theory*

[Man in Space]

Does anyone know how to contact the late Gary Shannon’s estate? He had a list (in-progress, sadly not completed before his passing) of derivation operations that I find useful, and others may too. I’d like to contact his next of kin to seek permission to expand on it and maybe publicly release it.

[Glass Half Baked]

Try asking around computer hobby forums. He's known for being one of the first employees of Apple.