37.2616, Books: The Documentarist Turn: Riesberg, Reinöhl, and Hellwig (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 04-Aug-2026
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Documentarist Turn: Riesberg, Reinöhl, and Hellwig (eds.) (2026)


Title: The Documentarist Turn
Subtitle: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological
generalizations
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series   240
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.240

Editor(s): Sonja Riesberg, Uta Reinöhl, Birgit Hellwig

Hardback ISBN:  9789027234001 Pages:  921 Price: Europe EURO 175.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027234001 Pages:  921 Price: Europe EURO 185.50
Hardback ISBN:  9789027234001 Pages:  921 Price: U.K. £ 147.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027234001 Pages:  921 Price: U.S. $ 228.00

Abstract:

The documentarist turn, i.e., the growing impact of documentary
concepts and practices within general linguistics, has increased
awareness of the empirical foundations of our discipline, accompanied
by an appreciation of the value of observable linguistic behaviour.
Today, there exist well-annotated, audiovisual data collections for
many—if still far from enough—endangered or un(der)described languages
across the world, each striving to present a “lasting, multipurpose
record of a language” (Himmelmann 2006). Documentary data is
increasingly supporting theory-building on a larger scale, which is
where the present volume steps in: What does the shift towards more
diverse, ecologically valid data types mean for synchronic and
diachronic linguistic analyses and typological generalizations? This
question is addressed by this volume’s far-ranging contributions on
academic and societal affordances (Part I), interrelations between
corpus design and avenues of research (Part II), as well as synchronic
(Part III) and diachronic (Part IV) research questions.

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)



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