Why Language Documentation Matters by Shobhana L. Chelliah
English | PDF | 2021 | 98 Pages | ISBN : 303066189X | 2.2 MB
This book offers the latest insights on language documentation, a reborn, refashioned, and reenergized subfield of linguistics motivated by the urgent task of creating a record of the world’s fast disappearing languages. Language documentation provides data to challenge and improve existing linguistic theory.