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:BIO (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