Labeling linguistic examples with language information

Question

I'm writing a linguistics paper that uses a large amount of linguistic examples from a wide variety of languages, using the gb4e package. I want to be able to label each example with information about the language it comes from, as I've seen in some texts, sort of like this:

Language (family, citation, etc.)  
   (1) example text  
       glosses
       'translation'

gb4e is great at formatting the examples themselves, but I can't seem to get the label placed where I want it, that is, placed immediately before the example and without an indent. Here's some example code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]

Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference})  
\begin{exe}  
\ex \gll    J\'anos h\'aza\\  
            John house.his\\  
    \glt    `John's house'  
\end{exe}

\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

If the label text is outside the exe environment, it's treated like a regular paragraph, but if I try to put it inside, it gives me an error. How can I make it look the way I want? I've looked at other packages that do numbered examples, but they don't seem to have solutions either, and they also don't have the same functionality as gb4e that I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

If you use Alexis Dimitriadis' version of cgloss4e available here as cgloss.sty you can put language information right aligned with the first line of the example. This is IMO a very nice way to format such information, and quite common in the field:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{cgloss}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[2]


\begin{exe}  
\ex \gll    J\'anos h\'aza\\ 
            John house.his\\ \hfill Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, \emph{reference}) 
    \glt    `John's house'  
\end{exe}

\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Answer 2

Here's a (rather ugly) solution by wrapping the language label in an un-numbered example via \sn:

\newcommand\langlabel[1]{\sn\hspace*{-\leftmargin}{#1}\\[-1em]}
...
\begin{exe}  
\langlabel{Hungarian (Finn-Ugric, \emph{reference})}
\ex \gll    J\'anos h\'aza\\  
            John house.his\\  
    \glt    `John's house'  
\end{exe}