Theses in reawakening languages

[Nicholas Evans]

I heartily agree with the need to make this an option for a PhD dissertation.
One PhD here that I would like to draw to your attention, in case you're unaware of it, is Ralph Lawton's PhD on Kiriwina lexicography. It wasn't actually a dictionary per se, but deals with a whole range of topics that went into the making of a dictionary over many years by himself and his team:

https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/149732

Best Nick
________________________________
From: Resource-network-linguistic-diversity <resource-network-linguistic-diversity-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Harald Hammarström <harald at bombo.se>
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 11:59 PM
To: Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada <jrosesla at uwo.ca>
Cc: resource-network-linguistic-diversity at listserv.linguistlist.org <resource-network-linguistic-diversity at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Subject: Re: Theses in reawakening languages


While "grammars as dissertations" seem to have made a comeback in North America (I don't think they were ever out of favour in Australia but they were here) recently

To this I'd just like to add, while it's true that "grammars as dissertations" were out of favour in (North) America until recently, this was so mainly for *linguist* students as opposed to
*missionaries*.  Missionaries, typically SIL, steadily produced grammars as dissertations throughout this period which were accepted and defended at American universities. all the best, H
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/resource-network-linguistic-diversity/attachments/20200701/d5ae2491/attachment.htm>