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Research Themes

Language Documentation and Archiving

The Research Theme Language Documentation and Archiving intents to further develop the expertise in the area of state-of-the-art documentation of small languages and theory-driven, cross-linguistic research based on existing corpora at ZAS. In this context we are developing a strategy for long-term archiving of linguistic corpora on small and often endangered languages in close collaboration with the IDS Mannheim and other corpus initiatives in Germany and internationally. We also work together with the ELAR archive (director: Dr. Mandana Seyfeddinipur). This Research Theme closely collaborate with other Research Themes at ZAS in order to, on the one hand, address also state-of-the-art archiving of other types of linguistic research data; and, on the other hand, to optimize the accessibility of language documentation corpora on small languages for a variety of theoretical research questions.

 

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