Using computational grammars for language documentation
(WiSe 11/12; revised January 2012)

John Bateman

1	31.10.2011	Introduction + Overview: Functional Analyses of Language
2	7.11.2011	Working with data: formulating a functional language description
3	14.11.2011	The System Network: paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes of description
4	21.11.2011	Computational grammars using system networks
5	28.11.2011	Recursion and constituency structure using system networks
6	5.12.2011	Installation and practice: defining and testing networks
7	12.12.2011	Advanced grammars and self-documentation
8	19.12.2011
Christmas Break
9	9.1.2012	Discussion of miniproject description areas: approaching a multidimensional functional language description
10	16.1.2012	Report Back: Problems and Issues
	23.1.2012	Working on Grammars (no session)
12	30.1.2012	Report Back: Presentation of grammars (interim results)
13	6.2.2012	Demonstration of Miniprojects
14	13.2.2012	Conclusions and Wrap-Up

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Caffarel, A., Martin, J.R. and Matthiessen, C.M.I.M. (2004) Introduction: Systemic functional typology. In: Language Typology: a functional perspective (eds. Caffarel/Martin/Matthiessen), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp1-76.
Steiner, E. and Teich, E. (2004) A metafunctional profile of the grammar of German. In: Language Typology: a functional perspective (eds. Caffarel/Martin/Matthiessen), Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp139-184.