<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">Dear Alexander,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">I have tried to document the oral tradition of the Great Andamanese language including creation tales and songs in the book <i>Voices from the Lost Horizon </i>2021. Niyogi Books, Delhi available at Amazon. In addition, you may check the website <a href="http://www.andamanese.org">www.andamanese.org</a> which gives ample information on the oral tradition. You may find different registers at both sources. Unfortunately, the language is breathing its last.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">Anvita</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 12:08 AM Alexander Rice <<a href="mailto:ax.h.rice@gmail.com">ax.h.rice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr"><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="m_-6814088983473709513DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br><table style="border-top:1px solid rgb(211,212,222)"><tbody><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:rgb(65,66,78);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" style="color:rgb(68,83,234)" target="_blank">www.avast.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="#m_-6814088983473709513_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>
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