Over the past 20 years EL Publishing has produced a range of articles that deal with various aspects of the theory and practice of language documentation, description, and support. These have appeared in the journal Language Documentation and Description (LDD) and our eBooks. Here we provide a curated listing of such articles classified by general topic areas, with links to each article.
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Defining
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| defining | Austin, Peter K. | 2010 | Current issues in language documentation | LDD 7, 12-33 | link |
| defining | Austin, Peter K. & Lenore Grenoble | 1997 | Current trends in language documentation | LDD 4, 12-25 | link |
| defining | Dobrin, Lise | 2021 | The Arapesh "suitcase miracle": The interpretive value of reproducible research | LDD21, 37-69 | link |
| defining | Dobrin, Lise & Saul Schwartz | 2021 | The social lives of linguistic legacy materials | LDD 21, 1-36 | link |
| defining | Dobrin, Lise M., Peter K. Austin & David Nathan | 2007 | Dying to be counted: the commodification of endangered languages in documentary linguistics | LDLT 1, 59-68 | link |
| defining | Dockum, Rikker & Claire Bowern | 2018 | Swadesh lists are not long enough: Drawing phonological generalizations from limited data | LDD 16, 35-54 | link |
| defining | Garrett, Edward & Leah Bateman | 2007 | Symbiosis between documentary linguistics and linguistic pragmatics | LDLT 1, 83-93 | link |
| defining | McDonnell, Andrea Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton | 2018 | Reflections on documentary linguistics | FEL 22, 78-83 | link |
| defining | Nurse, Derek | 2018 | Documenting language shift and loss: Bajuni in Somalia | LDD 15, 123-150 | link |
| defining | Schultze-Berndt, Eva | 2007 | On manners and paths of refining Talmys typology of motion expressions via language documentation | LDLT 1, 223-233 | link |
| defining | Schwartz, Saul | 2021 | Legacy materials and cultural facework: Obscenity and bad words in Siouan language documentation | LDD21, 166-198 | link |
| defining | Seidel, Frank | 2016 | Documentary linguistics: A language philology of the 21st century | LDD 13, 23-63 | link |
| defining | van der Voort, Hein | 2007 | Theoretical and social implications of language documentation and description on the eve of destruction in Rondonia | LDLT 1, 251-259 | link |
| defining | Wayt, Josh | 2021 | Documenting language and discerning listenership: Fluent speakers' evaluations of Dakota's oldest legacy texts | LDD21, 140-165 | link |
| defining | Weber, Tobias | 2021 | Philology in the folklore archive: Interpreting past documentation of the Kraasna dialect of Estonian | LDD21, 70-100 | link |
| defining | Williams, Nicholas, W. D. L. Silva, Laura McPherson & Jeff Good | 2021 | COVID-19 and documentary linguistics: Some ways forward | LDD 20, 359-377 | link |
Fieldmethods
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fieldwork | Biesele, Megan, Lee Pratchett & Taesun Moon | 2012 | Ju|'hoan and X'ao- 'aen documentation in Namibia: overcoming obstacles to community-based language documentation | LDD 11, 72-89 | link |
| fieldwork | Bricknell, Timothy C. | 2018 | Linguistic fieldwork: perception, preparation, and practice | LDD 15, 179-207 | link |
| fieldwork | Hellmuth, Sam, Frank Kagler & Ruth Singer | 2007 | Quantative investigation of intonation in an endangered language | LDLT 1, 123-132 | link |
| fieldwork | Hildebrandt, Kristine A. | 2007 | Phonology and fieldwork in Nepal: problems and potentials | LDLT 1, 133-144 | link |
| fieldwork | Kelly, Phineaus & Andrew Cowell | 2023 | Northern Arapaho virtual reality linguistic elicitation | LDD 23, 1-12 | link |
| fieldwork | Nathan, David | 2016 | "Don't tell them we're coming!": learning to document languages with Luise Hercus | LLS, 57-69 | link |
| fieldwork | Williams, Robert S. & Jade Comfort | 2007 | Language documentation and description among refugee populations | LDLT 1, 261-268 | link |
Research Ethics
Sign Languages
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sign | Johnston, Trevor & Adam Schembri | 2007 | Testing language description through language documentation, archiving and corpus creation: the case of indicating verbs in the Auslan Archive Corpus | LDLT 1, 145-154 | link |
| sign | Zeshan, Ulrike | 2007 | The ethics of documenting sign languages in village communities | LDLT 1, 269-279 | link |
Video
Audio
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
Music and Song
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| music | Barwick, Linda | 2005 | A musicologist's wish list: some issues, practices and practicalities in musical aspects of language documentation | LDD 3, 53-62 | link |
| music | Curran, Georgia | 2016 | Travelling ancestral women: connecting Warlpiri people and places through songs | LLS, 403-418 | link |
| music | Hendery, Rachel | 2016 | "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture": integration of multimedia into linguistic and anthropological publications | LLS, 115-130 | link |
| music | Laughren, Mary, Georgia Curran, Myfany Turpin & Nicolas Peterson | 2016 | Women's yawulyu songs as evidence of connections to and knowledge of land: the Jardiwanpa | LLS, 419-449 | link |
| music | Turpin, Myfany, Jennifer Green & Jason Gibson | 2016 | Mustering up a song: an Anmatyerr cattle truck song | LLS, 450-467 | link |
| music | Roche, Gerald | 2020 | Colonial transformations of song and multilingualism in Tibet | LDD19, 99-129 | link |
Archiving
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| archiving | Beer, Samuel Jay | 2021 | Interdisciplinary aspirations and disciplinary archives: Losing and finding John M. Weatherby's Soo data | LDD21, 101-139 | link |
| archiving | Johnston, Trevor & Adam Schembri | 2007 | Testing language description through language documentation, archiving and corpus creation: the case of indicating verbs in the Auslan Archive Corpus | LDLT 1, 145-154 | link |
| archiving | Thieberger, Nick | 2016 | Daisy Bates in the digital world | LLS, 102-114 | link |
| archiving | Weber, Tobias | 2021 | Philology in the folklore archive: Interpreting past documentation of the Kraasna dialect of Estonian | LDD21, 70-100 | link |
Language Support
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| support | Amery, Robert | 2016 | The Kaurna diaspora and its homecoming: Understanding the loss and re-emergence of the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia | LLS, 505-522 | link |
| support | Budd, Peter & Mary Raymond | 2007 | Community-oriented outcomes of language documentation in Melanesia | LDLT 1, 51-57 | link |
| support | Caffery, Jo & Mark Stafford Smith | 2016 | Linguistic and cultural factors that affect the documentation and maintenance of Australias traditional languages | LLS, 494-504 | link |
| support | Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa, Onowa McIvor, Aliki Marinakis & Strang Burton | 2017 | Supporting Indigenous language revitalisation through collaborative post-secondary proficiency-building curriculum | LDD14, 136-159 | link |
| support | Davis, Jenny L. | 2017 | Resisting rhetorics of language endangerment: Reclamation through Indigenous language survivance | LDD 14, 37-58 | link |
| support | De Korne, Haley | 2017 | The multilingual realities of language reclamation: Working with language contact, diversity, and change in endangered language education | LDD 14, 111-135 | link |
| support | De Korne, Haley & Wesley Y. Leonard | 2017 | Reclaiming languages: Contesting and decolonising language endangerment from the ground up | LDD 14, 5-14 | link |
| support | Dodykhudoeva, Leila | 2007 | Revitalization of minority languages: comparative dictionary of key cultural terms in the languages and dialects of the Shugni-Rushani group | LDLT 1, 69-79 | link |
| support | Gale, Mary-Anne | 2016 | A hitch-hikers guide to Aboriginal language retrieval and revival | LLS, 539-554 | link |
| support | Giacon, John & Kevin Lowe | 2016 | Key factors in the renewal of Aboriginal languages in NSW | LLS, 523-538 | link |
| support | Goodwin Gomez, Gale | 2007 | Responsive research and community involvement among the Brazilian Yanomami | LDLT 1, 95-102 | link |
| support | Hadjidemetriou, Chryso | 2007 | Kormakiti Maronite Arabic: prospect of documentation and community response | LDLT 1, 115-122 | link |
| support | Hermes, Mary & Mel N. Engman | 2017 | Resounding the clarion call: Indigenous language learners and documentation | LDD 14, 59-87 | link |
| support | Hornberger, Nancy | 2017 | Portraits of three language activists in Indigenous language reclamation | LDD 14, 160-175 | link |
| support | Leonard, Wesley Y. | 2017 | Producing language reclamation by decolonising language | LDD 14, 15-36 | link |
| support | McCarty, Teresa | 2017 | Commentary: Beyond endangerment in Indigenous language reclamation | LDD 14, 176-184 | link |
| support | Olko, Justyna | 2018 | Spaces for participatory research, decolonization and community empowerment: working with speakers of Nahuatl in Mexico | LDD 16, 1-34 | link |
| support | O'Neill, Sean & Saul Schwartz | 2021 | Recirculating and revitalizing words: Lexical legacies in Native American language preservation | LDD21, 199-228 | link |
| support | Rouvier, Ruth | 2017 | The role of elder speakers in language revitalisation | LDD 14, 88-110 | link |
| support | Sallabank, Julia | 2007 | Endangered language maintenance and social networks | LDLT 1, 197-208 | link |
| support | Sugita, Yuko | 2007 | Language revitalization or language fossilization? Some suggestions for language documentation from the viewpoint of interactional linguistics | LDLT 1, 243-250 | link |
| support | Torwali, Zubair | 2019 | Countering the challenges of globalization faced by endangered languages of North Pakistan | LDD 17, 44-65 | link |
Sociolinguistics
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sociolinguistics | De Korne, Haley & Wesley Y. Leonard | 2017 | Reclaiming languages: Contesting and decolonising language endangerment from the ground up | LDD 14, 5-14 | link |
All topics
| Topic | Author | Date | Title | Volume | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| archiving | Beer, Samuel Jay | 2021 | Interdisciplinary aspirations and disciplinary archives: Losing and finding John M. Weatherby's Soo data | LDD21, 101-139 | link |
| archiving | Johnston, Trevor & Adam Schembri | 2007 | Testing language description through language documentation, archiving and corpus creation: the case of indicating verbs in the Auslan Archive Corpus | LDLT 1, 145-154 | link |
| archiving | Thieberger, Nick | 2016 | Daisy Bates in the digital world | LLS, 102-114 | link |
| archiving | Weber, Tobias | 2021 | Philology in the folklore archive: Interpreting past documentation of the Kraasna dialect of Estonian | LDD21, 70-100 | link |
| defining | Austin, Peter K. | 2010 | Current issues in language documentation | LDD 7, 12-33 | link |
| defining | Austin, Peter K. & Lenore Grenoble | 1997 | Current trends in language documentation | LDD 4, 12-25 | link |
| defining | Dobrin, Lise | 2021 | The Arapesh "suitcase miracle": The interpretive value of reproducible research | LDD21, 37-69 | link |
| defining | Dobrin, Lise & Saul Schwartz | 2021 | The social lives of linguistic legacy materials | LDD 21, 1-36 | link |
| defining | Dobrin, Lise M., Peter K. Austin & David Nathan | 2007 | Dying to be counted: the commodification of endangered languages in documentary linguistics | LDLT 1, 59-68 | link |
| defining | Dockum, Rikker & Claire Bowern | 2018 | Swadesh lists are not long enough: Drawing phonological generalizations from limited data | LDD 16, 35-54 | link |
| defining | Garrett, Edward & Leah Bateman | 2007 | Symbiosis between documentary linguistics and linguistic pragmatics | LDLT 1, 83-93 | link |
| defining | McDonnell, Andrea Berez-Kroeker & Gary Holton | 2018 | Reflections on documentary linguistics | FEL 22, 78-83 | link |
| defining | Nurse, Derek | 2018 | Documenting language shift and loss: Bajuni in Somalia | LDD 15, 123-150 | link |
| defining | Schultze-Berndt, Eva | 2007 | On manners and paths of refining Talmys typology of motion expressions via language documentation | LDLT 1, 223-233 | link |
| defining | Schwartz, Saul | 2021 | Legacy materials and cultural facework: Obscenity and bad words in Siouan language documentation | LDD21, 166-198 | link |
| defining | Seidel, Frank | 2016 | Documentary linguistics: A language philology of the 21st century | LDD 13, 23-63 | link |
| defining | van der Voort, Hein | 2007 | Theoretical and social implications of language documentation and description on the eve of destruction in Rondonia | LDLT 1, 251-259 | link |
| defining | Wayt, Josh | 2021 | Documenting language and discerning listenership: Fluent speakers' evaluations of Dakota's oldest legacy texts | LDD21, 140-165 | link |
| defining | Weber, Tobias | 2021 | Philology in the folklore archive: Interpreting past documentation of the Kraasna dialect of Estonian | LDD21, 70-100 | link |
| defining | Williams, Nicholas, W. D. L. Silva, Laura McPherson & Jeff Good | 2021 | COVID-19 and documentary linguistics: Some ways forward | LDD 20, 359-377 | link |
| ethics | Austin, Peter K. | 2009 | Communities, ethics and rights in language documentation. | LDD 7, 34-54 | link |
| ethics | Zeshan, Ulrike | 2007 | The ethics of documenting sign languages in village communities | LDLT 1, 269-279 | link |
| fieldwork | Biesele, Megan, Lee Pratchett & Taesun Moon | 2012 | Ju|'hoan and X'ao- 'aen documentation in Namibia: overcoming obstacles to community-based language documentation | LDD 11, 72-89 | link |
| fieldwork | Bricknell, Timothy C. | 2018 | Linguistic fieldwork: perception, preparation, and practice | LDD 15, 179-207 | link |
| fieldwork | Hellmuth, Sam, Frank Kagler & Ruth Singer | 2007 | Quantative investigation of intonation in an endangered language | LDLT 1, 123-132 | link |
| fieldwork | Hildebrandt, Kristine A. | 2007 | Phonology and fieldwork in Nepal: problems and potentials | LDLT 1, 133-144 | link |
| fieldwork | Kelly, Phineaus & Andrew Cowell | 2023 | Northern Arapaho virtual reality linguistic elicitation | LDD 23, 1-12 | link |
| fieldwork | Nathan, David | 2016 | "Don't tell them we're coming!": learning to document languages with Luise Hercus | LLS, 57-69 | link |
| fieldwork | Williams, Robert S. & Jade Comfort | 2007 | Language documentation and description among refugee populations | LDLT 1, 261-268 | link |
| music | Barwick, Linda | 2005 | A musicologist's wish list: some issues, practices and practicalities in musical aspects of language documentation | LDD 3, 53-62 | link |
| music | Curran, Georgia | 2016 | Travelling ancestral women: connecting Warlpiri people and places through songs | LLS, 403-418 | link |
| music | Hendery, Rachel | 2016 | "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture": integration of multimedia into linguistic and anthropological publications | LLS, 115-130 | link |
| music | Laughren, Mary, Georgia Curran, Myfany Turpin & Nicolas Peterson | 2016 | Women's yawulyu songs as evidence of connections to and knowledge of land: the Jardiwanpa | LLS, 419-449 | link |
| music | Turpin, Myfany, Jennifer Green & Jason Gibson | 2016 | Mustering up a song: an Anmatyerr cattle truck song | LLS, 450-467 | link |
| sign | Johnston, Trevor & Adam Schembri | 2007 | Testing language description through language documentation, archiving and corpus creation: the case of indicating verbs in the Auslan Archive Corpus | LDLT 1, 145-154 | link |
| sign | Zeshan, Ulrike | 2007 | The ethics of documenting sign languages in village communities | LDLT 1, 269-279 | link |
| sociolinguistics | De Korne, Haley & Wesley Y. Leonard | 2017 | Reclaiming languages: Contesting and decolonising language endangerment from the ground up | LDD 14, 5-14 | link |
| music | Roche, Gerald | 2020 | Colonial transformations of song and multilingualism in Tibet | LDD19, 99-129 | link |
| space | Possemato, Francesco, Joe Blythe, Caroline de Dear, Josua Dahmen, Rod Gardner & Lesley Stirling | 2021 | Using a geospatial approach to document and analyse locational points in face-to-face conversation | LDD20, 313-351 | link |
| support | Amery, Robert | 2016 | The Kaurna diaspora and its homecoming: Understanding the loss and re-emergence of the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia | LLS, 505-522 | link |
| support | Budd, Peter & Mary Raymond | 2007 | Community-oriented outcomes of language documentation in Melanesia | LDLT 1, 51-57 | link |
| support | Caffery, Jo & Mark Stafford Smith | 2016 | Linguistic and cultural factors that affect the documentation and maintenance of Australias traditional languages | LLS, 494-504 | link |
| support | Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa, Onowa McIvor, Aliki Marinakis & Strang Burton | 2017 | Supporting Indigenous language revitalisation through collaborative post-secondary proficiency-building curriculum | LDD14, 136-159 | link |
| support | Davis, Jenny L. | 2017 | Resisting rhetorics of language endangerment: Reclamation through Indigenous language survivance | LDD 14, 37-58 | link |
| support | De Korne, Haley | 2017 | The multilingual realities of language reclamation: Working with language contact, diversity, and change in endangered language education | LDD 14, 111-135 | link |
| support | De Korne, Haley & Wesley Y. Leonard | 2017 | Reclaiming languages: Contesting and decolonising language endangerment from the ground up | LDD 14, 5-14 | link |
| support | Dodykhudoeva, Leila | 2007 | Revitalization of minority languages: comparative dictionary of key cultural terms in the languages and dialects of the Shugni-Rushani group | LDLT 1, 69-79 | link |
| support | Gale, Mary-Anne | 2016 | A hitch-hikers guide to Aboriginal language retrieval and revival | LLS, 539-554 | link |
| support | Giacon, John & Kevin Lowe | 2016 | Key factors in the renewal of Aboriginal languages in NSW | LLS, 523-538 | link |
| support | Goodwin Gomez, Gale | 2007 | Responsive research and community involvement among the Brazilian Yanomami | LDLT 1, 95-102 | link |
| support | Hadjidemetriou, Chryso | 2007 | Kormakiti Maronite Arabic: prospect of documentation and community response | LDLT 1, 115-122 | link |
| support | Hermes, Mary & Mel N. Engman | 2017 | Resounding the clarion call: Indigenous language learners and documentation | LDD 14, 59-87 | link |
| support | Hornberger, Nancy | 2017 | Portraits of three language activists in Indigenous language reclamation | LDD 14, 160-175 | link |
| support | Leonard, Wesley Y. | 2017 | Producing language reclamation by decolonising language | LDD 14, 15-36 | link |
| support | McCarty, Teresa | 2017 | Commentary: Beyond endangerment in Indigenous language reclamation | LDD 14, 176-184 | link |
| support | Olko, Justyna | 2018 | Spaces for participatory research, decolonization and community empowerment: working with speakers of Nahuatl in Mexico | LDD 16, 1-34 | link |
| support | O'Neill, Sean & Saul Schwartz | 2021 | Recirculating and revitalizing words: Lexical legacies in Native American language preservation | LDD21, 199-228 | link |
| support | Rouvier, Ruth | 2017 | The role of elder speakers in language revitalisation | LDD 14, 88-110 | link |
| support | Sallabank, Julia | 2007 | Endangered language maintenance and social networks | LDLT 1, 197-208 | link |
| support | Sugita, Yuko | 2007 | Language revitalization or language fossilization? Some suggestions for language documentation from the viewpoint of interactional linguistics | LDLT 1, 243-250 | link |
| support | Torwali, Zubair | 2019 | Countering the challenges of globalization faced by endangered languages of North Pakistan | LDD 17, 44-65 | link |
| video | Ashmore, Louise | 2008 | The role of digital video in language documentation | LDD 5, 77-102 | link |
| video | Cash Cash, Philip E. | 2007 | Documenting language, visualizing culture: shooting digital video in two endangered language communities | LDLT 1, 13-19 | link |