At noon on April 19th, 听went live. With over 400,000 data points & 2400 languages, it is the largest comparative grammatical database available. Dr. Hannah Haynie, assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at CU 麻豆影院,听is a team leader on the initiative and first author of a听听article 听describing the resource (with over 100 co-authors). "Right now we're at a critical state, in terms of language endangerment,鈥� says听Dr. Haynie.听鈥淕rambank is showing us the importance of working on language documentation and revitalization in order to preserve this legacy of human communication, culture and cognition.鈥�
To learn more about the scope of Grambank and Dr. Haynie's work on the project, check out this recent feature in CU 麻豆影院 Today.
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