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What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Discussions of endangered languages often frame language death as being associated with the
loss of knowledge as embedded in a particular language. At the same time, it is also clear that the
losses associated with ...
Languoid, Doculect and Glossonym: Formalizing the Notion ‘Language’
(University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
It is perfectly reasonable for laypeople and non-linguistic scholars to use names for languages
without reflecting on the proper definition of the objects referred to by these names. Simply
using a name like English or ...
The descriptive grammar as a (meta)database
(2004)
This paper presents a general model for the structure of the traditional descriptive grammar based on a survey of four printed grammars, each of which was chosen as representative of a different "genre": a "best-practice" ...
Practical language development: Whose mission?
(Linguistic Society of America, 2009)
The purpose of this paper is to acknowledge and explore the relationship between academic and
mission linguistics, focusing on their main areas of overlap, language documentation and
fieldwork. Our orientation is ...
Deconstructing descriptive grammars
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012)
Much work within digital linguistics has focused on the problem of developing concrete methods and general principles for encoding data structures designed for non-digital media into digital formats. This work has been ...
‘Community’ collaboration in Africa: Experiences from Northwest Cameroon
(SOAS, 2012)
A prominent feature of the literature on language documentation has been the importance of
designing documentary projects in ways that allow speaker communities to benefit from the work
of an outside researcher. Canonical ...
Data and language documentation
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
The topic of this chapter is the relationship between data and language
documentation. Unlike many fields of study, concerns regarding data collection
and manipulation play a central role in our understanding of, and ...
The Berkeley Interlinear Text Collector (BITC)
(2015-11-03)
The Berkeley Interlinear Text Collector (BITC) is a system for collecting interlinear texts and is especially designed for group collaboration. BITC is installed on a network server, and users access BITC through a web ...
Beyond the ancestral code: Towards a model for sociolinguistic language documentation
(University of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Most language documentation efforts focus on capturing lexico-grammatical information
on individual languages. Comparatively little effort has been devoted to considering a
language’s sociolinguistic contexts. In parts ...
Valuing technology: Finding the linguist’s place in a new technological universe
(John Benjamins, 2011)
The focus of this paper is on the relationship between technology and language
documentation and description. It is largely inspired by Bird and Simons (2003), or more
specifically, section 4 of that paper (Bird and ...