Corpus linguistic and documentary approaches in writing a grammar of a previously undescribed language
| dc.contributor.author | Mosel, Ulrike | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-11-17T21:00:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-11-17T21:00:44Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Drawing on her experiences with writing a grammar in the course of the Teop language documentation project, the author explores how corpus linguistic methods can be employed for the analysis and description of a previously undescribed language. After giving a short introduction into the creation of a digital corpus and complex corpus search methods, the chapter focuses on the importance of creating a diversified corpus. It demonstrates that different text varieties such as spoken and written legends, procedural texts and descriptions of objects show different preferences for certain ways of expression and thus represent valuable resources for various grammatical phenomena. Accordingly, a grammar which is based on texts should account for this variation by incorporating a detailed description of the corpus, giving references and metadata for each example and providing information on the kind of contexts particular grammatical features are usually associated with. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Foreign Language Resource Center | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | ISBN-13: 978-0-9856211-4-8 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4589 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | LD&C Special Publication | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License | |
| dc.title | Corpus linguistic and documentary approaches in writing a grammar of a previously undescribed language |
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