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Current trends in language documentation
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An Oceanic language of Vanuatu
, 2014
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Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non‐commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder/s. The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. When referring to this thesis, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given e.g. AUTHOR (year of submission) "Full thesis title", name of the School or Department, PhD Thesis, pagination. Static spatial expression in Ske:
A pan-dialectal approach to language documentation: the Wik languages of Cape York Peninsula, Australia
"... The 'representativeness ' and 'quality ' of a language sample have been suggested as key criteria for corpus planning in language documentation work (Himmelmann, 2002; Lehmann, 2001). However, identifying what a representative and quality selection of language data should include ..."
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The 'representativeness ' and 'quality ' of a language sample have been suggested as key criteria for corpus planning in language documentation work (Himmelmann, 2002; Lehmann, 2001). However, identifying what a representative and quality selection of language data should include raises significant methodological issues in relation to the Wik languages of Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Australia. The Wik languages are closely related Middle Paman language varieties spoken on the western coast of CYP. Although the fourteen named Wik varieties share similar lexicon and structure, there is significant dialectal and intra-dialectal variation. Language, clan and country are extensively interrelated in this region producing a highly linguistically-oriented culture where older speakers are typically polyglots and language-switching and translation are part of everyday interactions (Sutton, 1978). In this seminar I will discuss the development of a pan-dialectal documentation model to record the northernmost coastal Wik language, Wik-Ngatharr. Taking a pan-dialectal approach as utilised by Evans (2003) allows dialect variants and their sociolinguistic use to be understood in relation to the identification and description of
