Language Documentation

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Language documentation aims to capture and preserve the linguistic practices of a given community through audio and video recording, transcription, and annotation. It describes the grammar of endangered language varieties and how these varieties are used.

Personnel

Pilar Chamorro Fernández

Associate Professor

Semantics, Pragmatics, Romance languages, Tenetehára

Lukas Denk

Visiting Lecturer

Linguistic Typology
Morphology
Linguistic Complexity
Navajo and less-documented languages

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