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Glossing Dene Languages
(Alaska Native Language Center, 2020) Hargus, Sharon; Semenova, Olga M.; Tuttle, Siri G.
General frameworks for glossing linguistic examples (Lehmann 1982, 2004 and particularly the Leipzig Glossing Rules (LGR) by Comrie, Haspelmath, and Bickel 2008, 2015) aim to make the sharing of grammatical information more efficient, consistent and intelligible. While they have improved grammatical communication for many languages, language-family specific facts and conventions can be difficult to integrate into cross-linguistic frameworks. In response to this difficulty for Baltic languages, Nau and Arkadiev (2015) have suggested a general framework for the glossing of the languages of that family. In the spirit of that work, the purpose of this article is to bring up some issues in interlinear glossed text (IGT) in Dene languages and give the rationale for possible solutions. We acknowledge that establishing a glossing standard for Dene, with close to 40 languages in the family, is a much more difficult, maybe even impossible task compared to doing so for the two languages of the Baltic family. But as a step towards doing so, we would like to continue the conversation about glossing Dene languages initiated by Holden (2013) and Kibrik (2019), in order to promote better analytical communication within our subfield and to linguists in general.