The Grammaticon.

Martin Haspelmath has been working on a project he’s now put online: The Grammaticon: Linking grammatical comparative concepts to typological databases This blogpost introduces a new resource for general-comparative linguistics: the Grammaticon, a collection of hundreds of grammatical comparative concept terms (Haspelmath & Englisch 2026). Version 1.0 has just gone online: https://grammaticon.clld.org/ Many of these terms are linked to typological features represented in database collections such as WALS, Grambank, or APiCS. Grammatical terminology is quite variable (and often somewhat confusing), so the Grammaticon offers some guidance: Each term has a standard definition, and definitions are typically linked to other terminological resources (such as Wikipedia), and for many of the typological features, the Grammaticon explains how their technical terms relate to the definitions in the Grammaticon. The Grammaticon was first conceived of in 2017, and the idea was presented at the ALT…