Topical area: methodology of linguistic description

Purpose

• sketch the structure and components of the comprehensive description of a language
• explain the structure and use of a bidirectional grammar
• illustrate the approach with the (emerging) description of the Cabecar language.

Empirical basis

Corpus and elicited data from Cabecar.

Structure of presentation

• general methodology of the comprehensive description of a language, with focus on grammar
• illustration by description of Cabecar.