Language Documentation

Does the money we spend on ‘Language Documentation’ make a difference? I wonder if it wouldn’t be money better spent for language documentation and benefit to the academy, if organizations funding language documentation research for the academy would rather fund the collection of audio samples and video samples already appearning in grammars. In a way provide the support that modern grammars should have.

The need and vision for an Awesome List for Open Source Software related to minority languages.

This post is a quick review of the ethno-arts literature before a general language documentation project in Northern Nigeria.

A couple of hand gestures taught to me by my friend.

Should there be a display difference between read texts and oral texts which are not read?

Ponderings on linguistics fieldwork training.

I present a new diagram illustrating the players and motivations around language archives and the knowledge market place.

This project creates DCMI application profile using LRMI, DC, OLAC, and proprietary SIL metadata schemas.

Linguists and Language Documenters have a large variety of resources they engage with. They need to keep these all in an organized way and be able to work with related items.

Where is the moral responsibility in language documentation for protecting privacy?