This is the Grambank wiki. It is used to store documentation of features, coding methodology, terminology and other information for coders and users.

The wiki contains the following types of documentation of the project:

1. Background information about the questionnaire
2. Practical information for users and collaborators
3. Notes on coding methodology
4. Notes on the linguistic terminology and comparative concepts we adopt
5. Wiki articles about the individual Grambank features
6. Practical guides for coders

You can find a list of all articles for each feature here. If you are a coder looking for new tasks, there is a priority list of in our shared Google Spreadsheet that includes both new languages and revision tasks.

If you are not a project member but want to contribute, please see this page and the FAQ.

Contents by theme

You can search the individual articles alphabetically using the sidebar and by using the search bar on the right side of this page. Alternatively, the following list presents each article by theme. This list is preliminary. More articles will be added and some will be removed by the time the wiki is finished.

1. Background information about the questionnaire

1.1 Background of the Grambank questionnaire

1.2 Logical dependencies between features

1.3 General FAQ

2. Practical information for users and collaborators

2.1 How to cite Grambank

2.2 Fetching data and analysing with R

2.3 Git repos structure

2.4 Contributing: suggesting changes or additional data

2.5 Advice for constructing cross-linguistic databases

2.6 Contact

3. Notes on coding methodology

3.1 Basics of coding Grambank

3.2 How we learn about a language's structure so that we might code

3.3 Coding strategies, hints and suggestions

3.4 Absence of evidence and evidence of absence

3.5 Language internal variation and different strategies for one function

4. Notes on terminology and comparative concepts

4.1 Terminology and concepts

4.2 Wordhood and phonological boundness

4.3 Morphology

4.4 Affixes and clitics

4.5 Particles

4.6 Agreement

4.7 Indexing vs. pronouns

4.8 Core arguments (S, A and P)

4.9 Noun Classes and Classifiers

4.10 Relative clauses

4.11 Dedicated marking

4.12 Obligatory marking

4.13 Productivity

4.14 Grammatical gender and other notions of gender

4.15 Glossing abbreviations used in this wiki

5. Wiki articles about the individual Grambank features

6. Practical information for coders and patrons

6.1 Preliminaries on typology in general

6.2 Responsibilities for parties involved in Grambank

6.3 Interacting with experts

6.4 Referencing sources in Grambank

6.5 Submitting coding sheets via Pull Requests (PR)

6.6 Revising existing coding

6.7 Revision suggestion workflow

6.8 Encountering and solving coding problems

6.9 FAQ (coders)

6.10 Leaving the Grambank team

Contributors

The following people wrote this wiki:

• Jeremy Collins
• Michael Dunn
• Hannah Haynie
• Harald Hammarström
• Nataliia Hübler
• Jay Latarche
• Jakob Lesage
• Hedvig Skirgård
• Tobias Weber
• Alena Witzlack-Makarevich‬

All authors contributed to the general articles. The wiki was started and drafted by Harald Hammarström and Hedvig Skirgård. The patrons - Jeremy Collins, Hannah Haynie, Jay Latarche, Jakob Lesage, Hedvig Skirgård and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich‬ - wrote the wiki articles on the individual Grambank features. Harald Hammarström also contributed to these. Tobias Weber helped during the final reviewing and revising process. Jakob Lesage coordinated the final writing and revising phases. Michael Dunn and Nataliia Hübler each contributed to one general article.