Documenting Endangered Languages : : Achievements and Perspectives /

Documenting Endangered Languages : : Achievements and Perspectives / / ed. by Geoffrey Haig, Nicole Nau, Stefan Schnell, Claudia Wegener.

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The rapid decline in the world's linguistic diversity has prompted the emergence of documentary linguistics. While documentary linguistics aims primarily at creating a durable, accessible and comprehensive record of languages, it has also been a driving force in developing language annotation a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Broeder, Daan,
Cablitz, Gabriele,
Geyer, Klaus,
Haig, Geoffrey,
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,
Hovdhaugen, Even,
Jung, Dagmar,
Malau, Catriona Hyslop,
Margetts, Anna,
Nau, Nicole,
Næss, Åshild,
Pawley, Andrew,
Peterson, John,
Schnell, Stefan,
Schultze-Berndt, Eva,
Seifart, Frank,
Siegl, Florian,
Simard, Candide,
Sloetjes, Han,
Trilsbeek, Paul,
Uytvanck, Dieter van,
Wegener, Claudia,
Windhouwer, Menzo,
Wittenburg, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Haig, Geoffrey,
Nau, Nicole,
Schnell, Stefan,
Wegener, Claudia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 240
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface. Ulrike Mosel’s contribution to documentary linguistics
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, during, and after the DoBeS programme
  • Part I. Theoretical issues in language documentation
  • Chapter 2. Competing motivations for documenting endangered languages
  • Chapter 3. Evolving challenges in archiving and data infrastructures
  • Chapter 4. Comparing corpora from endangered language projects: Explorations in language typology based on original texts
  • Part II. Documenting language structure
  • Chapter 5. “Words” in Kharia – Phonological, morpho-syntactic and “orthographical” aspects
  • Chapter 6. Aspect in Forest Enets and other Siberian indigenous languages – when grammaticography and lexicography meet different metalanguages
  • Chapter 7. Documentary linguistics and prosodic evidence for the syntax of spoken language
  • Chapter 8. Diphthongology meets language documentation: The Finnish experience
  • Chapter 9. Retelling data: Working on transcription
  • Part III. Documenting the lexicon
  • Chapter 10. The making of a multimedia encyclopaedic lexicon for and in endangered speech communities
  • Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages
  • Part IV. Interaction with speech communities
  • Chapter 12. Language is power: The impact of fieldwork on community politics
  • Chapter 13. Sustaining Vurës: Making products of language documentation accessible to multiple audiences
  • Chapter 14. Filming with native speaker commentary
  • Index

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