{"id":1131,"date":"2021-12-30T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2021-12-30T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:51:24","slug":"how-to-write-linguistic-examples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/how-to-write-linguistic-examples\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write linguistic examples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a standard, well-designed way in which linguists write examples, and failure to use it in a paper about language is a strong <em>shibboleth <\/em>suggesting unfamiliarity with linguistics as a field. In brief, it is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When an example (affix, word, phrase, or sentence) appears in the body (i.e., the middle of a sentence):\n<ul>\n<li>if written in Roman, it should be italicized.<\/li>\n<li>if written in non-Roman, but alphabetic scripts like Cyrillic, italicization is optional. (Cyrillic italics are, like the Russian cursive hand they&#8217;re based on, famously hard for Western amateurs like myself to read.)<\/li>\n<li>if written in a non-alphabetic script, it can just be written as is, though you&#8217;re welcome to experiment.<\/li>\n<li>Examples should never be underlined, bolded, or placed in single or double quotes, regardless of the script used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>When an example is set off from the body (i.e., as a numbered example or in a table), it need not be italicized.<\/li>\n<li>Any non-English example should be immediately followed with a gloss.\n<ul>\n<li>A gloss should always be single-quoted.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t intersperse words like &#8220;meaning&#8221;, as in &#8220;&#8230;<em>kitab\u00a0<\/em>meaning &#8216;book&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;, just write &#8220;&#8230;<em>kitab\u00a0<\/em>&#8216;book&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If using morph-by-morph or word-by-word glossing, follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eva.mpg.de\/lingua\/pdf\/Glossing-Rules.pdf\">Leipzig glossing conventions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a standard, well-designed way in which linguists write examples, and failure to use it in a paper about language is a strong shibboleth suggesting unfamiliarity with linguistics as a field. In brief, it is as follows: When an example (affix, word, phrase, or sentence) appears in the body (i.e., the middle of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/how-to-write-linguistic-examples\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to write linguistic examples&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-presentation-of-self"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1137,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}