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<div>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? </div>
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<p>Gary F. Simons. The rise of documentary linguistics and a new kind of corpus</p>
<p>Presented at 5th National Natural Language Research Symposium, De La Salle </p>
<p>University, Manila, 25 Nov 2008. </p>
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-- <br>**********************************************************************************************<br>Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br>(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:spenfiel@nsf.gov">spenfiel@nsf.gov</a>)<br>
<br><br>Department of English (Primary)<br>Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture, <br>Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), <br>American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>
The Southwest Center<br>University of Arizona,<br>Tucson, Arizona 85721<br><br><br>