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1 online resource (364 pages). |
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Trends in linguistics : studies and monographs ; 240
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 240.
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| Contents |
Preface. Ulrike Mosel's contribution to documentary linguistics; Chapter 1. Introduction; 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. |
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Chapter 6. Aspect in Forest Enets and other Siberian indigenous languages -- when grammaticography and lexicography meet different metalanguagesChapter 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. |
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Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languagesPart 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. |
| Summary |
Documenting endangered languages has become a major goal in the linguistic sciences. This volume showcases recent developments in methodology, technology and analysis, drawing on experience gained in a global range of documentation projects. It illustrates the significance of documentary linguistics not only as a set of documentary practices, but as a scientific discipline in its own right. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Language obsolescence.
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Language obsolescence. |
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Language and languages.
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Language and languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nau, Nicole.
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Schnell, Stefan.
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Wegener, Claudia, 1976-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haig, Geoffrey. Documenting Endangered Languages : Achievements and Perspectives. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2011 9783110260014 |
| ISBN |
9783110260021 (electronic book) |
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3110260026 (electronic book) |
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3110260018 |
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9783110260014 |
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1283402548 |
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9781283402545 |
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9786613402547 |
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