Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Catching language -- Grammaticography: The art and craft of writing -- grammars -- Real descriptions: Reflections on native speaker -- and non-native speaker descriptions of a language -- Realizing Humboldt's dream: Cross-linguistic -- grammatography as data-base creation -- The organization of reference grammars: A -- typologist user's point of view -- Calculus of possibilities as a technique in -- linguistic typology -- Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and -- Basic Linguistic Theory -- Let the language tell its story? The role of -- linguistic theory in writing grammars -- On describing word order -- Heterosemy and the grammar-lexicon -- trade-off -- Field semantics and grammar-writing: Stimulibased -- techniques and the study of locative verbs -- Taking a closer look at function verbs: Lexicon, -- grammar, or both? -- Converbs in an African perspective -- From Eurocentrism to Sinocentrism: The case of -- disposal constructions in Sinitic languages -- How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma- -- in Tagalog -- The interplay of synchronic and diachronic -- discovery in Siouan grammar-writing -- The historical and cultural dimensions in grammar -- formation: The case of Modern Greek -- Polylectal grammar and Royal Thai -- Writing culture in grammar in the Americanist -- tradition -- Backmatter