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indeed with regard to actually working with digitally-stored multimedia
corpora of lesser-known languages. In the coming years, we expect to see
major developments here with regard to the etiquette of working with such
corpora (How are they evaluated? How are they referred to in publications?
How can work by different investigators on the same variety be combined
into a single coherent corpus?) as well as with regard to the technology
used in exploring them and extracting relevant information for a specific
project. We also expect an impact on the methodological and theoretical
debate in the subject areas working most intensively with data from such
corpora, including linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology, and oral
literature. As a part of these developments, it may well turn out that some
of the suggestions made in this book, e.g. with regard to the structuring of
the corpora or the format for annotations, will need to be revised or perhaps
even be discarded. Still, we trust that the discussion of the basic conceptual
issues as laid out here will be of continued interest and relevance for many
years to come and thus truly merit to be considered “essentials of language
documentation.”
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Bochum
Jost Gippert, Frankfurt
Ulrike Mosel, Kiel
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Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the very generous support of the Volkswagen-
Stiftung (http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de) which has been instrumental
in producing this book. The foundation not only funded the summer school
for which most chapters were drafted, but also provided the means to dis-
tribute a substantial number of copies of this book free of charge outside of
Western Europe, North America, and Japan. By granting a research fellow-
ship for Himmelmann in 2004–2005, it has allowed him to focus his re-
search on the issues dealt with in Chapters 7 and 10 and to engage in the
editing of the book in a way which otherwise would not have been possible.
Through its DoBeS Programm (Documentation of Endangered Languages
program), which started in the year 2000, it has made a major contribution
to the development of documentary linguistics as an innovative field of
study and practice within the humanities.
Our sincerest thanks are due to the contributors of the volume who spent
a lot of time on conceiving their chapters and have always been ready to
cooperate with us in the difficult task of preparing a consistent book.
We also gratefully acknowledge much practical help we have received
in putting the volume together. Marcia Schwartz checked English and style
conventions; Judith Köhne compiled the combined list of bibliographical
references at the end. At Mouton, Ursula Kleinhenz did a great job of seeing
the book through to press. Many thanks to all of you.
Contents
Editor’s preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
Chapter 1
Language documentation:
What is it and what is it good for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork
and analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Arienne
M.
Dwyer
Chapter 3
Fieldwork and community language work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Ulrike
Mosel
Chapter 4
Data and language documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Peter
K.
Austin
Chapter 5
The ethnography of language and language
documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Jane H. Hill
Chapter 6
Documenting lexical knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
John B. Haviland
Chapter 7
Prosody in language documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
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Chapter 8
Ethnography in language documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Bruna
Franchetto
Chapter 9
Linguistic annotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Eva
Schultze-Berndt
Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language . . . . . . . . 253
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Chapter 11 Orthography development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Frank
Seifart
Chapter 12 Sketch grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Ulrike
Mosel
Chapter 13 Archiving challenges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Paul Trilsbeek and Peter Wittenburg
Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of
textual materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Jost
Gippert
Chapter 15 Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation
with multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
David
Nathan
Abbreviations and resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Language index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
Subject index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
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