Grammatical information system
The grammatical information system ( grammis ) is an Internet information system on German grammar at the Institute for German Language (IDS) in Mannheim . It is aimed at everyone who is looking for explanations and background knowledge on grammatical phenomena, especially students, teachers and linguists.
The project background
The project history of grammis goes back to the first half of the 1990s. It is closely intertwined with the findings that were gathered at IDS in connection with the development of the extensive IDS grammar (grammar of the German language) for German, i.e. a systematic description of formal language regularities, in print form.
Subsequently, the research project grammis (grammatical information system) was launched in the grammar department in mid- 1993 . Within the scope of this project, using the advantages of the hypertextual paradigm, a way is to be developed to address grammatical questions of various types and complexity both for the interested layman and for grammar experts. The user interface has been responsive and optimized for mobile devices since 2018 .
Grammis does not want to compete directly with the book edition of the IDS grammar, nor does it see itself only as a simple hypertextification or digitization of the existing content. Rather, it is a basic project to explore the importance of hypermedia text technology for collaborative academic work and publishing. The contents of the book edition are used as a programmatic basis in individual cases, segmented according to formal and functional aspects and networked as hypertext units. In particular, however, the information system will be expanded to include new content and functional components. This includes conveying grammatical knowledge not only visually but - where appropriate - also audibly or audiovisually, d. H. to use the possibilities of multimedia. For this purpose, audio documents can be linked to make features of the spoken language such as accentuation or intonation easier to understand. This also includes clarifying abstract structures and relationships (e.g. word order and diatheses) as well as process descriptions with the help of animated graphics or video passages. And finally, hypermedia also implies the flexible integration of interactive research results from databases and text corpora .
With around 100,000 page impressions per month, grammis is one of the most popular online systems for academic practice at the Institute for German Language .
Content
The offer currently comprises three main categories (research, basic knowledge, resources) with a total of several thousand hypertext units. The core elements are the systematic grammar , a propaedeutic grammar and the grammar in questions and answers . The corpus grammar module makes a theoretical and practical contribution to putting grammatical research on standard German on an empirical basis using the tools of corpus linguistics and statistics . In these components, an attempt is made to create an overall picture of the grammar of contemporary German and to convey current linguistic research results. The technical terms used are explained by a scientific terminology ; Grammatical dictionaries provide special information on functional words such as prepositions and connectors, as well as on affixes and selected verbs. The system is rounded off by the grammatical bibliography , which enables a differentiated literature search in the bibliography on German grammar (BDG). Since 2018, information on German spelling has also been available in grammis (rules, spelling vocabulary and literature collection).
Literature (selection)
- Marek Konopka / Roman Schneider (ed.): Grammatical stumbling blocks digital . Mannheim, 2012. ISBN 978-3-937241-38-8
- Marek Konopka: Grammar in Questions and Answers . In: Sprachreport. Information and opinions on the German language. Issue 3/2006, 9-12.
- Roman Schneider: User-adaptive systems on the Internet: Information and learning with GRAMMIS and ProGr @ mm. Mannheim: IDS (= amades 4/04), 2004, ISBN 3-937241-05-1
- Roman Schneider: A Database-driven Ontology for German Grammar . In: Rehm, Georg / Witt, Andreas / Lemnitzer, Lothar (eds.): Data structures for linguistic resources and their applications. Data Structures for Linguistic Resources and Applications. Proceedings of the Biennial GLDV Conference 2007, Tübingen: Narr, 2007. 305-314.
- Roman Schneider / Horst Schwinn (2014): Hypertext, knowledge network and database: The web information systems grammis and ProGr @ mm . In: Institute for German Language (Ed.): Views and Insights. 50 years of the Institute for the German Language. Mannheim. 337-346.
- Bruno Strecker: Grammis. The grammatical information system of the Institute for German Language . In: Sprachreport. Information and opinions on the German language. Issue 3/2005, 12-15.