The lectures will be a follow-up of  the online course "GF Tutorial for Resource Grammar Writers: a fast lane to grammar writing", recorded in 2009. Slides are available and video recordings:

The GF system, simple multilingual grammars

• What GF is
• Installing the GF system
• A grammar for John loves Mary in English, French, Latin, German, Hebrew
• Testing grammars and building applications
• The scope of the Resource Grammar Library
• Exercises
  

Morphological paradigms and lexica

• Morphology, inflection, paradigm - example: English verbs
• Regular patterns and smart paradigms
• Overloaded operations
• Inherent features in the lexicon
• Building and bootstrapping a lexicon
• Nonconcatenative morphology: Arabic
  

Building up a linguistic syntax

• The key categories and rules
• Morphology-syntax interface
• Examples and variations in English, Italian, French, Finnish, Swedish, German, Hindi
• A miniature resource grammar: Italian
• Module extension and dependency graphs
• Ergativity in Hindi/Urdu
  

Using the Resource Grammar Library in applications

• Software libraries: programmer's vs users' view
• Semantic vs syntactic grammars
• Examples of semantic grammar and its implementation
• Interfaces and parametrized modules
• Free variation
• Overview of the Resource Grammar API
  

Inside the Resource Grammar Library

• Module structure
• Statistics
• How to start building a new language
• How to test a resource grammar
• The Assignment