Glossing Dene Languages
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2020
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Hargus, Sharon
Semenova, Olga M.
Tuttle, Siri G.
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Alaska Native Language Center
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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.
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glossing, interlinear morpheme glosses, Dene languages
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Hargus, Sharon, Olga Lovick, and Siri G. Tuttle. 2020. “Glossing Dene languages.” In Kayla Begay and Kayla Palakurthy (eds.), Working Papers in Athabaskan languages 2020. Proceedings of the 2019 Dene Languages Conference in Davis, California, 12–57. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
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Hargus, Sharon, Olga Lovick, and Siri G. Tuttle. 2020. “Glossing Dene languages.” In Kayla Begay and Kayla Palakurthy (eds.), Working Papers in Athabaskan languages 2020. Proceedings of the 2019 Dene Languages Conference in Davis, California, 12–57. Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center.
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Proceedings of the 2019 Dene Languages Conference in Davis (California) July 6-7, 2019