Rapid Word Collection and Historical Linguistics (handout)
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Dr Ken Manson (CRLD, La Trobe University) on documenting historical linguistics. With the rapid decline in the number of languages and language families, linguists have increased their documentation efforts to gather as much language data as possible before a languageā€™s demise. However, collecting enough textual material and commenting/annotating/glossing to be useful for semanticists and historical linguists is a prohibitive undertaking for an individual, and even more so when there are several languages which have no or limited records. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
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