Glottopedia:Categorization

All Glottopedia articles should be categorized, as in [1]. All category names are in English, Glottopedia's default language.

There are three classes of categories (A-D). Each article should belong to one category of the classes A, B, and C angehören (multiple categorization is possible in class C).

Category class A: Languages: The language in which the article is written (two-letter abbreviation according to ISO 639).

Category:En (English)

Category:De (German)

Category class B: Article type

Category:DICT (Dictionary articles)

Category:BIOG (Biographical articles)

Category:LANG (Language articles)

Category:SURV (Survey articles)

Category:LING (Research articles)

Major categories can be assigned using templates.

Category class C: Major categories: The linguistic domain, the article refers to.

Here are some examples for major categories (a complete list can be found under Major categories):

acquisition

bilingualism

computational linguistics

diachrony

discourse analysis

lexicography

logic

morphology

onomastics

philosophy of language

phonetics and phonology

pragmatics

psycholinguistics

quantitative linguistics

semantics

sociolinguistics

syntax

writing

Category class D: Special categories

Special categories subdivide a major category. Up to now, Glottopedia has not come up with guidelines for special categories.

Other languages

German Glottopedia:Kategorien