Research and academia on this desk means two things: how to read a linguistics paper without being a linguist, and what a documentation corpus actually contains. The conference calls, institute programmes and lecture archives of the Linguistic Society of the Philippines are kept here as archive material, marked as such.
Every material on this desk, longest first.
| Material | Language | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| What "Endangered Language" Actually Measures: Why the First Question Should Not Be "How Many Speakers?" | English | Feature | 1186 |
| What Is in a Language Documentation Corpus | English | Feature | 1146 |
| How to Read a Linguistics Paper Without Being a Linguist | English | Feature | 1000 |
| Lectures | English | Archive | 500 |
| 2014 Conference proposal submission | English | Archive | 302 |
| 2014 Conference registration | English | Archive | 104 |
| Total | 1 languages | 6 materials | 4,238 |
Reading papers, building corpora, and the archive of the society this site grew from.
Research & academiaEnglish1000 words
Start with the numbered examples. Linguistics papers are built around data, and the examples—those blocks of text with multiple lines underneath—carry the actual evidence. The notation looks technical, but it is scaffolding. Your job is to find the claim, match it to the data, and decide whether the argument holds. The rest is translation.
English · 1000 words · Read
Research & academiaEnglish1146 words
Language documentation is not language description. That distinction matters from the first day of fieldwork to the last file uploaded to an archive. A grammar or dictionary describes a language; a documentation corpus preserves it as a reusable, checkable, and ethically governed record. The corpus is the point. Without the deposit, the work is unfinished.
English · 1146 words · Read
Research & academiaEnglish1186 words
A language with two million speakers can be more endangered than one with two thousand. The difference lies in who is learning it at home. UNESCO's framework for assessing language vitality, first published in 2003 and elaborated in the 2009 Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, treats intergenerational transmission as the decisive factor.
English · 1186 words · Read
Research & academiaEnglish104 words
The 2014 LSP National Conference and General Meeting Theme: “Language Education in the Philippines” 24-26 April 2014 Mariano Marcos State University (Batac, Ilocos Norte)
English · 104 words · Read
Research & academiaEnglish302 words
The Linguistic Society of the Philippines, in cooperation with Mariano Marcos State University, invites everyone to the 2014 LSP National Conference and General Meeting
English · 302 words · Read
Research & academiaEnglish500 words
