<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Claire Bowern</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: 21 January 2015 at 02:12<br>Subject: Re: [RNLD] question regarding the use of archives for linguistic research<br>To: Adam Schembri <<a href="mailto:A.Schembri@latrobe.edu.au">A.Schembri@latrobe.edu.au</a>><br>Cc: Dorothea Hoffmann <<a href="mailto:hoffmann.dorothea@gmail.com">hoffmann.dorothea@gmail.com</a>>, RNLD <<a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au</a>><br><br><br><p dir="ltr">Hi Dorothea,<br>
I have made extensive use of archival materials in my research, from individual languages such as Bardi and those in western Queensland to the Pama-Nyungan comparative database, which is about half unpublished, archival materials. My web site has more details.<br>
Claire</p>
<br><div style="color:#787878">On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Adam Schembri <<a href="mailto:A.Schembri@latrobe.edu.au" target="_blank">A.Schembri@latrobe.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);background-repeat:initial initial"><blockquote>
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<div>Hi Dorothea</div>
<div>Trevor Johnston and I (along with a number of other colleagues) have published a number of papers drawing on the data in the Auslan (Australian Sign Language) Corpus in ELAR (<a href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0001" target="_blank">http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0001</a>),
mostly for in-depth studies into Auslan itself. Trevor and myself were both involved in the original ELDP documentation project back in 2004. </div>
<div>Regards,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Dorothea Hoffmann <<a href="mailto:hoffmann.dorothea@gmail.com" target="_blank">hoffmann.dorothea@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, 20 January 2015 9:49<br>
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<div>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>
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<div>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>
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<div>I found a brief overview of completed and ongoing DobeS-funded projects (<a href="http://dobes.mpi.nl/research-projects/" target="_blank">http://dobes.mpi.nl/research-projects/</a>):</div>
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<li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Cross-linguistic patterns in the encoding of three-participant events</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Demonstratives with exophoric reference. A functional study based on discourse data from five languages</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/projekte/discourse_and_prosody/index.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,159,238);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">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 style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www2.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/referentiality/index.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,159,238);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Referentiality project</a>: a
research project in the corpus-based typology of referential strategies in twelve different languages.</li><li 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" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,159,238);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">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>Are they similar projects for other language archives, e.g. ELAR, Paradisec, CLA or AILLA? Are there any projects spanning different archives?</div>
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<div>Thank you so much for your help!</div>
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<div>Yours sincerely, </div>
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<div>Dorothea Hoffmann</div>
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<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/hoffmanndorothea/</a></div>
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<div>Dorothea Hoffmann</div>
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