[Lingtyp] Query: Approaches to genre/register analysis in under-documented oral-culture languages

[Anvita Abbi]

Randy Lapolla is very right. I found a very distinct past tense marker in
narration which was absent from my grammar data bank. Examples are given in
the sources I cited in my earlier mail.
Anvita

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 10:44 AM Randy LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Alex,
> It is important when doing fieldwork or working on any natural language
> data to look at different genre, as the grammatical patterns can be quite
> different. A famous example is Hopper and Thompson’s famous 1980 paper on
> transitivity, which was based only on narratives. They later (2001)
> published a second paper in which they reported looking at conversation,
> and found the generalizations they posited in 1980 only held for narrative.
>
> In my own fieldwork I had found that procedural texts often show different
> patterns from narratives and conversations.  In the attached file I give
> some examples.
>
> All the best,
> Randy LaPolla
>
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2023, at 2:38 AM, Alexander Rice <ax.h.rice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Howdy folks
>
> A good bit of the ink that gets spilled in corpus linguistics is spent on
> sussing out lexical and structural correlates of *written* genres and
> registers in English (and, I would guess, other western-European majority
> languages), e.g., Biber and Conrad's: *Register, Genre, and Style* (2009).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> best,
> --Alex
>
> --
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