1. The Language Portal Dutch / Frisian

2. A place on the internet where all knowledge about the grammar of Dutch and the grammar of Frisian can be found. In English. What is The Language Portal?

3.  http://www.nwo.nl/en http://www.nwo.nl/en  Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research  Biggest grant, “NWO-Groot” (NWO-Grand)  € 1,7 million Funding

4.  2nd time that the subsidy was granted to a project from the Humanities  1st time that the subsidy was granted to a project from the discipline of linguistics NWO-Grand subsidy

5. 2011 -2015 When?

6.  Meertens institute, http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/ http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/cms/en/  Frisian Academy, http://www.fryske-akademy.nl/index.php?L=2&id=18 http://www.fryske-akademy.nl/index.php?L=2&id=18 Main partners

7.  Technical: Institute for Dutch Lexicology, http://www.inl.nl/our-work-and-working-methods http://www.inl.nl/our-work-and-working-methods  Boards of advisors for each subfield of grammar from all leading universities in the relevant fields of research. Other partners

8. A place on the internet where all knowledge about the grammar of Dutch and the grammar of Frisian can be found. In English. What is The Language Portal?

9.  English  Frisian  Dutch  German The four West Germanic languages

10. Historical affiliation

11.  German has the Duden Grammatik, http://www.duden.de/shop/ http://www.duden.de/shop/  NB: prescriptive.  Target group: national (written in German)  Who? Language professionals such as writers, teachers, and so on. Grammar of German

12. English has Quirk et al: “A comprehensive grammar of the English language”A comprehensive grammar of the English language NB: prescriptive. Target group: national. Intended for language professionals Grammar of English

13.  Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey Pullum: The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language  Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson, Geoffrey Leech, Susan Conrad, and Edward Finegan: Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English More English Grammars

14.  Dutch has the Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst (ANS).  Prescriptive.  Target group: national (written in Dutch)  http://ans.ruhosting.nl/ Grammar of Dutch

15.  Frisian has … nothing that big.  There are small grammars like Tiersma (English), Popkema (Dutch). Grammar of Frisian

16.  Chiefly concerned with what is scientifically interesting.  Is targeted at the international scientific community of linguists.  Duden, Quirk, ANS target the national community of those professionally concerned with language. Language Portal Frisian / Dutch

17. Prescriptive for language professionals DudenQuirkANS- Scientific for linguists -Huddle- ston & Pullum? Language Portal Grammars of West Germanic languages

18. We applied for it, but NWO didn’t want to pay for it. Why didn’t we develop a grammar for language professionals?

19. … in what language should it be? Idealistic versus pragmatic arguments (Note: we have both a Frisian-Dutch dictionary and a Frisian-Frisian one) If we write a grammar for Frisian language professionals,

20. The Language Portal has the structure of an XML-database. The Language Portal is created by an enriched version of the software program Oxygen, an xml-editor http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Technically innovative

21. http://taalportaal.org/taalportaal/topic/ Language Portal

22. Afrikaans Other languages?

23. Subject architecture Dutch

24. Modern Grammar of Frisian Frisian Syntax Frisian Phonology Frisian Morphology Eric Hoekstra Siebren Dyk Joke Weening Willem Visser Truus de Vries

25. PhonologyMorphologySyntax Modern Frisian +++ Middle Frisian ??? Old Frisian ??? Historical linguistics

26.  Language Portal for Welsh?  Basque?  Scots? Grammar of Minority Languages

27. Questions? Thanks for your attention!