Standardised grammar format
This is a modified version of xain1112's "Standardised Grammar Format" that was in the format of a PDF file, and had duplicate sections for "Writing system/Orthography" and such.
"It’s a frequent problem in the community that we don’t know the exact way to organize a grammar. I’ve taken the liberty of going through sixeen grammar books from different languages and from different years (some were typewritten) and compared the tables of contents in order to make a somewhat consistent format of organization."
This grammar format was made by analysing the following languages (some are conlangs): Arapaho, Blackfoot, Choctaw, Chrau, Esperanto, Hawaiian, Hindi, Ithkuil, Japanese, Kelen, Lakota, Mam, Okuna, Tagalog, Tariana, Vietnamese. The outline includes everything found in all the grammars; Just use what you have in your language.
Outline
- Introduction
- Introduction about speakers
- Dialects
- Loan Words
- Phonology
- Inventory
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Diphthongs
- Semivowels
- Suprasegmentals
- Intonation
- Pitch accent
- Tone
- Stress
- Accent
- Syllable structure
- Clusters
- Phonotactics
- Morphophonemics
- Sound frequency (only found once)
- Writing system/Orthography
- Morphology
- Overview/Word classes
- Syllables
- Noun
- Classes
- Roots/Stems
- Derivation
- Denominalizers
- Reduplication
- Classifiers
- Quantifiers
- Pluralization
- Mass noun
- Count noun
- Collective
- Qualifiers
- Possession
- Alienability
- Obligatory possession
- Case
- Subject/Object
- Number
- Compounds
- Pronouns
- Types
- Independent
- Possessive
- Reflexive/reciprocal
- Demonstrative
- Interrogative
- Indefinite/Definite
- Relative
- Proper nouns
- Determiners
- Pro-drop/omission
- Verbs
- Classes
- Roots/Stems
- Reduplication
- Inflection
- Person
- Number
- Reflexive/Reciprocal
- Infinitive
- Negation
- Transitivity
- Valency changing
- Increasing
- Decreasing
- Passive
- Causative
- Copula
- Auxiliary
- Modal
- Tense
- Aspect
- Mood
- Subjunctive
- Imperative/Commands
- Manner
- Voice
- Derivation
- Deverbalizers
- Predicates
- Affixes
- Adpositions
- Conjunctions
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Deictics
- Particles
- Clitics
- Converbs
- Gerunds
- Syntax
- Simple sentences
- Word order
- Complex sentences
- Phrases
- Noun
- Verb
- Adjective
- Adverbial
- Clauses
- Independent
- Dependent
- Relative
- Complement
- Embedded
- Adjective
- Adverbial
- Questions
- Emphasis
- Numerals
- Cardinal
- Ordinal
- Time
- Semantics