Martin Haspelmath

I actually think that Glottolog should call this language "Serbo-Croatian"... Am 15.07.22 um 11:57 schrieb Arctic Circle System: > > The Kajkavian language > is also listed > as a...

Clearly, the label "extinct" is problematic for the reasons mentioned by Hedvig, and also because of its biological associations: Languages are cultural packages, and if there are good records of...

I wasn't arguing for keeping "extinct", and I have no objections to "sleeping" – in fact, I generally like the idea of adopting new terminology. But I don't think that...

I agree in principle that we have social responsibility, and as I said, I would be fine with "sleeping", but the responsibility of comparative linguistics is somewhat different from the...

@FelicityMeakins As I said, I'm not attached to any legacy labels, but I strongly disagree with the idea that "We can’t pretend to be neutral scientists, particularly in the social...

Many thanks for pointing this out! Glottolog does not have the reseources to curate the dialects carefully, but whenever an error is pointed out, we make an attempt to correct...

I think we call it "Arpitan", following recent usage (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpitania). But "Franco-Provençal" (or "Francoprovençal", but not "Franco-provençal") is the traditional (and probably still better known) term. There's also a...

What we need to add a language to Glottolog is some key references (sometimes a single reference is sufficient). Maybe this is not so urgent in the case of earlier...

This is not a contribution to the technical discussion, but in my 2020 paper on morphs (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11525-020-09355-5), I pointed out that "allomorph" is used in two rather different senses by...