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Documenting Endangered Languages
Achievements and Perspectives, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 240, Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 240
ISBN/EAN: 9783110260014
Umbreit-Nr.: 3303303
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: IX, 344 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 17.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- 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 and analysis software, archiving architecture, improved fieldwork methodologies, and new standards in data accountability and accessibility. More recently, researchers have begun to recognize the immense potential available in the archived data as a source for linguistic analysis, so that the field has become of increasing importance for typologists, but also for neighbouring disciplines. The present volume contains contributions by practitioners of language documentation, most of whom have been involved in the Volkswagen Foundation's DoBeS programme (Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen). The topics covered in the volume reflect a field that has matured over the last decade and includes both retrospective accounts as well as those that address new challenges: linguistic annotation practice, fieldwork and interaction with speech communities, developments and challenges in archiving digital data, multimedia lexicon applications, corpora from endangered languages as a source for primary-data typology, as well as specific areas of linguistic analysis that are raised in documentary linguistics.
- Kurztext
- The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
- Autorenportrait
- Geoffrey L. J. Haig, Universität Bamberg, Germany; Nicole Nau, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, Posnan, Poland; Stefan Schnell, Universität Kiel, Germany; Claudia Wegener, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie Leipzig, Germany.