LD&C Special Publication No. 3: Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization

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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012-08) Seifart, Frank; Haig, Geoffrey; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.; Jung, Dagmar; Margetts, Anna; Trilsbeek, Paul
Using language documentation data in a broader context
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012-08) Thieberger, Nick
On the one hand we have never seen as much fieldwork and recording of small and endangered languages as we have over the past decade. On the other hand linguists are now also much more aware of the need to create records that can be reused by the people we record and that will still be available for their descendants. Our own descendants, the future researchers who will use our records, will also need to be able to find and make use of our research. The fragility of digital records means we need to pay attention to their curation over time and create suitable repositories if they do not already exist. In order for these aims to be achieved, we need to establish work practices now that allow the data to move easily from creation to the archive and to community use.
Online presentation and accessibility of endangered languages data: The General Portal to the DoBeS Archive
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012-08) Schwiertz, Gabriele
Data depositories containing language documentation corpora are generally well structured, well maintained, and include large collections of many under-researched languages. However, they are not yet conceived of as resources that can be easily consulted on scientific or non-scientific questions pertaining to one of those languages. A general portal to the DoBeS archive has been created to facilitate access to the data, to attract more users to the archive, and to lower the threshold for users outside the linguistic community to access the data. The structure and the main features of this portal will be presented in this paper.
From language documentation to language planning: Not necessarily a direct route
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012-08) Sallabank, Julia
In this paper I will consider how documentary linguists can provide support for community language planning initiatives, and I will discuss some issues. These relate partly to the process of language documentation: what and who we choose to document, how we define ‘a language’, and how we deal with language variation and change; and partly to community attitudes and dynamics.
Creating educational materials in language documentation projects – creating innovative resources for linguistic research
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012-08) Mosel, Ulrike
In its first two sections this paper briefly discusses two models of language documentation projects: the hierarchical model, in which the language documentation corpus (LDC) serves as a resource for the development of educational materials (EMs), and the integrative model, which integrates the production of EMs into the LDC and makes them a resource for linguistic research. The third and the fourth section describe how the integrative model was applied in the Teop Language Documentation Project and what kind of linguistic research topics it provides.

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