Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 3 Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization Edited by Frank Seifart, Geoffrey Haig, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Anna Margetts, and Paul Trilsbeek August 2012 University of Hawai‘i Press ISBN 978-0-9856211-0-0

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Table of Contents

Front cover pdf
Front matter pdf
Table of contents pdf
Contributors pdf

Acknowledgments pdf

Chapter 1. The threefold potential of language documentation
Frank Seifart
pp. 1–6
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PART ONE: METHODS

Chapter 2. Prospects for e-grammars and endangered languages corpora
Sebastian Drude
pp. 7-16
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Chapter 3. Language-specific encoding in endangered language corpora
Jost Gippert
pp. 17-24
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Chapter 4. Unsupervised morphological analysis of small corpora: First experiments with Kilivila
Amit Kirschenbaum, Peter Wittenburg, and Gerhard Heyer
pp. 25-31
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Chapter 5. A corpus linguistics perspective on language documentation, data, and the challenge of small corpora
Anke Lüdeling
pp. 32-38
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Chapter 6. Supporting linguistic research using generic automatic audio/video analysis
Oliver Schreer and Daniel Schneider
pp. 39-45
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PART TWO: ANALYSES

Chapter 7. Bilingual multimodality in language documentation data
Marianne Gullberg
pp. 46-53
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Chapter 8. Tours of the past through the present of eastern Indonesia
Marian Klamer
pp. 54-63
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Chapter 9. Data from language documentations in research on referential hierarchies
Stefan Schnell
pp. 64-72
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Chapter 10. Information structure, variation and the Referential Hierarchy
Jane Simpson
pp. 73-82
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Chapter 11. How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications
Sabine Stoll and Balthasar Bickel
pp. 83-89
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Chapter 12. On the sociolinguistic typology of linguistic complexity loss
Peter Trudgill
pp. 90-95
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PART THREE: UTILIZATION

Chapter 13. Visualization and online presentation of linguistic data
Hans-Jörg Bibiko
pp. 96-104
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Chapter 14. Language archives: They’re not just for linguists any more
Gary Holton
pp. 105-110
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Chapter 15. Creating educational materials in language documentation projects – creating innovative resources for linguistic research
Ulrike Mosel
pp. 111-117
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Chapter 16. From language documentation to language planning: Not necessarily a direct route
Julia Sallabank
pp. 118-125
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Chapter 17. Online presentation and accessibility of endangered languages data: The General Portal to the DoBeS Archive
Gabriele Schwiertz
pp. 126-128
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Chapter 18. Using language documentation data in a broader context
Nick Thieberger
pp. 129-134
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