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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...