<div dir="ltr"><div>Howdy folks</div><div><br></div><div>A good bit of the ink that gets spilled in corpus linguistics is spent on sussing out lexical and structural correlates of <i>written</i> genres and registers in English (and, I would guess, other western-European majority languages), e.g., Biber and Conrad's:<i> </i><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Register, Genre, and Style</i> (2009).</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">I'm curious if there have been focused efforts along these lines for under-documented/minority/low resource languages that don't have much in the way of a written tradition. </span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Say you have a minority language community that does a lot of oral storytelling, the kinds of stories they tell might be grouped in genres based on the content of said stories (such as creation stories vs. personal life experience stories), and you want to see if perhaps certain lexico-syntactic, phonetic, or discourse phenomena might be more typical in one of the type of story compared to the other.<br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">If you've done work like this, or have come across work of this type, I'd be very appreciative of any references you might have.</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">best,</span></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">--Alex<br></span></div><div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" size="1">Alexander Rice, <a href="https://www.su.ualberta.ca/services/thelanding/learn/pronouns/" target="_blank">(he, him, his)</a>, </font><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:x-small">Doctoral Candidate</span><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">Department of Linguistics, </font><span style="font-size:x-small">University of Alberta</span></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">3-27 Assiniboia Hall</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="1"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/arice" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/arice</a></font></div></div></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br><table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de"><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;"></a></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:#41424e;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px">Virus-free.<a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank" style="color:#4453ea">www.avast.com</a></td></tr></table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>