Data and Language Documentation
Data and Language Documentation
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数据和语言文档
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2006
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Jeff Good
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Jeff Good
The role of data in language documentation is rather different from the way that data is traditionally treated in language description. For description, the main concern is the production of grammars and dictionaries whose primary audience is linguists (Himmelmann 1998, Woodbury 2003). In these products language data serves essentially as exemplification and support for the linguist’s analysis. It is typically presented as individual example sentences, often without source attribution, and often edited to remove ‘irrelevant material’. There may also be a ‘sample text’ or two in an appendix to the grammar. Language documentation, on the other hand, places data at the centre of its concerns. Woodbury (2003:39) proposes that: