Keyword

language documentation

Description: Language documentation is a field of linguistics that systematically records and describes languages, including their use, structure, and cultural contexts.

Primary topic: Linguistics and Language Studies (41%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q1133221

OpenAlex ID: keywords/language-documentation

Ethnographic Interview

2017 · Giampietro Gobo, Andrea Molle · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · 2,790

The world's languages in crisis

1992 · Michael Krauss · Language · 1,396

The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland

1972 · R. M. W. Dixon · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,186

The Rise and Fall of Languages

1997 · R. M. W. Dixon · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1,122

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Documentary and descriptive linguistics

1998 · NIKOLAUS P. HIMMELMANN · Linguistics · 801

Atlas Of The World’s Languages In Danger

2015 · Christopher Moseley, Alexandre Nicolas · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 691

Describing Morphosyntax

1997 · Thomas E. Payne · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 679

Advances in the Cross‐Linguistic Study of Ideophones

2012 · Mark Dingemanse · Language and Linguistics Compass · 588

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Essentials of Language Documentation

2006 · 422

When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge

2007 · Harrison, K. David 1966- · Choice Reviews Online · 417

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture

2014 · Goddard, Cliff, Ye, Zhengdao · Routledge eBooks · 411

Pirahã exceptionality: A reassessment

2009 · Andrew Nevins, David Pesetsky, et al. · Language · 404

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Describing morphosyntax: A guide for field linguists. By Thomas E. Payne Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 413.

1999 · Anthony P. Grant · Language · 401

Seven dimensions of portability for language documentation and description

2003 · Steven Bird, Gary Simons · Language · 360

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The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages

1999 · Garaio Mendizabal, Beñat · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 332

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The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics

2017 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 331

Dying words: endangered languages and what they have to tell us

2010 · Choice Reviews Online · 324

Handbook of Australian Languages

1981 · Blake, Barry J., Dixon, Robert M. W. · John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks · 324

Language Documentation and Description

2014 · Niclas Burenhult, Arthur Holmer, et al. · 311

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork

2011 · Oxford University Press eBooks · 310

Studies in African Linguistics

2014 · African Studies Companion Online · 306

The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages

2011 · Choice Reviews Online · 305

Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers

2008 · Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, D. Robert Ladd · OLAC - Open Language Archives Community · 296

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Endangered languages: On endangered languages and the safeguarding of diversity

1992 · Ken Hale · Language · 295

Ngiti : A Central-Sudanic language of Zaire. By Constance Kutsch Lojenga. (Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic analyses and documentation, 9.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1994. Pp. xiv, 517.

2000 · Benji Wald · Language · 293

Works count: 67,890

Citation count: 86,740