Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistic Theory 2

Edited by Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells

This page presents the papers arising from the second LDLT conference held on 13-14 November 2009 at SOAS University of London …read more…

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File Title Author(s)
Table of contents, Appendix and cover Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan & Peter Sells
Introduction Peter Sells
Good things come in small languages: grammatical loss and innovation in Nzadi Larry M. Hyman
Grammatical categories and linguistic theory: elaborateness in grammar Tania Kuteva
A theory is only as good as the data: casting a wide net in Kabardian and Ahtna documentation Ayla B. Applebaum & Andrea L. Berez
Documenting deixis in Wik-Ngatharr and Wik-Ngathan Louise Ashmore
Mapping negation in conceptual space Oliver Bond
Narrative structuring (and restructuring) in Totela: a group study of tense-aspect in the field Thera Marie Crane
Construct forms of nouns in African languages Denis Creissels
Ideophones in unexpected places Mark Dingemanse
Minderico: an endangered language in Portugal Vera Ferreira & Peter Bouda
Discrete level narrative, terraced music: insights from underdocumented Ivorian languages Dafydd Gibbon, Firmin Ahoua, Blé François Kipré & Sascha Griffiths
From text to typology: towards implementing quantitative typology on corpora from endangered languages Geoffrey Haig & Stefan Schnell
A note on the typology of head-internal relativization Ken Hiraiwa
Orientation or location? A case-study of Jaminjung and Kriol Dorothea Hoffmann
The linguistic importance of language isolates: the African case Jean-Marie Hombert & Gérard Philippson
Ultrasound imaging and theories of tongue root phenomena in African languages Fusheini Hudu, Amanda Miller & Douglas Pulleyblank
Multiple noun class prefixes in Otjiherero Jekura U. Kavari & Lutz Marten
Opacity in Bantu: In support of the internal organisation of features Nancy C. Kula
Typology of prosodic systems in Low Luga Izhorian varieties Natalia Kuznetsova
Modeling a new Guro orthography Natalia Kuznetsova, Olga Kuznetsova & Valentin Vydrin
Laz relative clauses in a typological and areal perspective René Lacroix
Towards a model of maximal accessibility in linguistic documentation work Conor McDonough Quinn
Gender and person markers in Cicipu discourse: ‘non-topical’ and ‘topical’ anaphoric agreement Stuart McGill
Displaced arguments: S-O-V-X word order in Mande Tatiana Nikitina
Nominal tense in Tundra Nenets and Northern Samoyedic Irina Nikolaeva
Murrinh-Patha agreement: implications for the relationship between theory and description Rachel Nordlinger
Toward a notion of possible verb in Emai Ronald P. Schaefer & Francis O. Egbokhare
(Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results Tyler Schnoebelen
Do formal models constrain language description? The case of verbal agreement morphology Michael F. Thomas
The Uncunwee (Ghulfan) Documentation Project: linking language documentation to language conservation Robert S. Williams, Angelika Jakobi & Jade Comfort
Null arguments and homonymy flight in the development of Creole pronoun systems Melani Wratil
Phonology and phonetics of tone in Northern Sotho, a Southern Bantu language Sabine Zerbian