A Framework for Descriptive Grammars

摘要理论语言学一直受到缺乏大量语言的充分和容易获取的语法信息的阻碍。该项目打算解决这些问题如下：(A)充分性：根据跨语言的有效分析，设计一个详细的描述性框架，其中将从形式和功能两个方面描述语法现象。(B)无障碍：在一个灵活的超文本软件环境中实施这一框架，该环境将作为实地语言学家编写语法的工具，并作为理论语言学家跨语言语法信息的来源。

ABSTRACT Theoretical linguistics has been hampered by the lack of adequate and easily accessible grammatical information for a wide range of languages. This project intends to address these problems as follows: (a) Adequacy: devise a detailed descriptive framework, based on cross-linguistically valid analyses, in which grammatical phenomena will be characterized in terms of both form and function. (b) Accessibility: implement this framework in a flexible hypertext software environment that will serve as a tool for the writing of grammars by field linguists and as a source of cross-linguistic grammatical information for theoretical linguists.