Topic Is there really that much difference between language documentation and language description?
No set paper will be discussed but for more background see any of these papers:
Himmelmann, N. 2006. Language documentation: what is it and what is it good for? in J. Gippert, N. P. Himmelmann and U. Mosel. (eds) Essentials of language documentation, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1-30.
Himmelmann, N. 2008. Reproduction and preservation of linguistic knowledge: linguistics' response to language endangerment. Annual Review of Anthropology, 39:337-50.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. 1998. Documentary and descriptive linguistics. Linguistics, 36.161–195.
Woodbury, Tony. 2003. Defining documentary linguistics. In P.Austin (ed.) Language documentation and description, Vol. 1, 35-51. London: SOAS.
Date Tuesday 19th January
Time 7:30 pm
Venue Small function room, Recreation Hotel (formerly Homestead Inn), 170 Queens Parade intersection with Smith St and where #86 tram turns the corner)
Contact Ruth Singer if you have any questions <rsinger [AT] unimelb.edu.au>