Overview for Documentation

[phil cash cash]

Interesting...my first impression is that this is so "Dell Hymes" in  
orientation.   The natural outcome of this is to ask "what to do we  
really take grammar to be?"  I am curois why it shold have taken so  
long for this semblance of question to emerge.  This sort of steps  
outside the view of language as anything below the head.  Too, many  
could never surrender their documentary "corpus" and he seems to  
channel this deep dilemma pretty well.  It is the defining (pre-) 
occupation of the linguist with a purpose.  I take a similar approach  
though much more qualitative...thought that is not the word that  
really describes it, rather it is more in-depth of the moment of  
recording as a form of intervention, capturing a slice of life, etc.,  
etc. thnx,
Phil

On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:29 PM, susan.penfield wrote:

>
> Here is a nice overview of the history and future direction for  
> documentary linguistics. One of the central questions being  
> addressed is what is the minimal kind of documentation that will be  
> useful to future generations?
>
>
> Gary F. Simons. The rise of documentary linguistics and a new kind  
> of corpus
>
> Presented at 5th National Natural Language Research Symposium, De  
> La Salle
>
> University, Manila, 25 Nov 2008.
>
> [
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> http://pnglanguages.org/~simonsg/presentation/doc%20ling.pdf]
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