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Interlinear-glossed text (IGT) is a method of representing semantic, morphological and phonological information about lexemes along with phrase and clause level translations of connected text. While the Leipzig Glossing Rules (LGR) provide general standards and principles for IGT, we argue here that language-family specific guidelines are necessary to facilitate rapid creation of new interpretable IGT that can be used for language description, typological discovery, and cross-language comparison. Using selected examples of Tibeto-Burman IGTs, we demonstrate how linguists create their own terminology and conventions for representing linguistic phenomena which fall outside the scope of the LGR. To date, there are few, at least within the Sino-Tibetan linguistics community, that have discussed language-family specific IGT conventions, so new annotators lack guidance on IGT creation. This paper examines how typical Tibeto-Burman constructions (e.g., reduplication, verb stem alternation, directionals) are represented in IGT from several South Central Tibeto-Burman languages. We offer some remarks on the purposes of IGT and some principles for new IGT creators. 

We lay out the conjugation patterns for declarative affirmatives and negatives in Lamkang [lmk], a language of the South Central subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman (a.k.a. Trans-Himalayan) family. As for many languages of this family, conjugation patterns differ according to tense. This includes different patterning with respect to participant prefixes and agreement suffixes as well as stem shape. Lamkang also employs a person hierarchy: with 2nd >1st , 3rd >1st , and 3rd >2nd , an inverse marker t- is used if the verb is in the nonfuture affirmative. The verb template includes tense, negative, and copular auxiliaries which are inflected for agent except when agent is otherwise indicated. For example, in negative conjugations with an inclusive prefix, the expected PATIENT-Stem Auxiliary-AGENT pattern for the paradigm flips to AGENT-Stem Auxiliary-PATIENT. Within the clusive forms a great deal of variation exists for which prefixes are used for inclusive and exclusive. We also see variation in the use of plural markers. All this hints at a highly complex system in a state of flux. 

Abstract This paper is a position statement on reproducible research in linguistics, including data citation and attribution, that represents the collective views of some 41 colleagues. Reproducibility can play a key role in increasing verification and accountability in linguistic research, and is a hallmark of social science research that is currently under-represented in our field. We believe that we need to take time as a discipline to clearly articulate our expectations for how linguistic data are managed, cited, and maintained for long-term access.