Real descriptions: Reflections on native speaker and non-native speaker descriptions of a language
Year: 2006
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: There are 2,000 or 3,000 languages, for which we have no decent descrip-tion, that will pass into disuse within the next few generations. Trained lin-guists are urgently needed to document them. In most cases native speakers can be trained as linguists but in many instances an outsider is required.
Author: Felix K. Ameka
Institution: Leiden University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W764937137