Overview for Documentation

[susan.penfield]

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?



Gary F. Simons. The rise of documentary linguistics and a new kind of corpus

Presented at 5th National Natural Language Research Symposium, De La Salle

University, Manila, 25 Nov 2008.

[*http://pnglanguages.org/~simonsg/presentation/doc%20ling.pdf*<http://pnglanguages.org/~simonsg/presentation/doc%20ling.pdf>
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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
(Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.
E-mail: spenfiel at nsf.gov)


Department of English (Primary)
Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture,
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT),
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
The Southwest Center
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona 85721
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