<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear LingTyp members, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">together with Ryan Henke I am currently preparing a paper about the use of language documentation archives for linguistic research. Do any of you have any experience with such studies or are involved in any projects?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are particularly interested in learning more about the approach taken to use these archives, e.g. for cross-linguistic studies, for in-debth research into individual languages, as follow-up projects to language documentation carried out by the same or different researchers than the original documentation project, etc. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I found a brief overview of completed and ongoing DobeS-funded projects (<a href="http://dobes.mpi.nl/research-projects/" class="">http://dobes.mpi.nl/research-projects/</a>):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p class="" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;">The following research projects for data analysis on existing DOBES documentation material have been funded within the DOBES programme:</p><ul class="" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); margin: 0px 0px 2em 2.5em; padding: 0px;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cross-linguistic patterns in the encoding of three-participant events</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Demonstratives with exophoric reference. A functional study based on discourse data from five languages</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/projekte/discourse_and_prosody/index.html" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 159, 238); text-decoration: none;">Discourse and prosody across language family boundaries</a>: two corpus-based case studies on contact-induced syntactic and prosodic convergence in the encoding of information structure.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/index.html" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 159, 238); text-decoration: none;">Referentiality project</a>: a research project in the corpus-based typology of referential strategies in twelve different languages.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistics/research/typological-surveys/the-relative-frequencies-of-nouns-pronouns-and-verbs-cross-linguistically.html?Fsize=0" target="_blank" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 159, 238); text-decoration: none;">The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs cross-linguistically</a>. This project investigates the relative frequencies of core parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, and pronouns, in spoken language corpora of seven languages that represent a wide range of areal and typological diversity. </li></ul><div class="">Are they similar projects for other language archives, e.g. ELAR, Paradisec, CLA or AILLA? Are there any projects spanning different archives?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you so much for your help!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yours sincerely, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class="">Dorothea Hoffmann</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:dorohoffmann@uchicago.edu" class="">dorohoffmann@uchicago.edu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Postdoc and Lecturer<br class="">University of Chicago </div><div class="">Rosenwald 205G</div><div class=""><br class=""><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/" class="">http://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/</a></div></div></body></html>