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Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.Key features textbook introduction to Language Documentation considers all common problems

Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation. Key features textbook introduction to Language Documentation considers all common problems

Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.

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textbook introduction to Language Documentation considers all common problems

By consequence of the Karabakh War in 2020 and due to Azerbaijanian revisionism concerning the history, culture and cultural monuments of the region, the discussion on Caucasian "Albania", which is little known in the West in both academic and public circles, has been reignited. The handbook provides an overview of the current state of research on the Caucasian "Albanians" in an objective, scientifically sound manner. The contributions are not necessarily intended to reveal new scientific findings but rather to summarise approved knowledge. The volume brings together internationally renowned scholars, researchers and practitioners from various fields of studies reporting on and reviewing the state of research concerning the Caucasian "Albanians", their history and archaeology, their language and written monuments, their religion, church history and their art, including their relation to the Udi people of today. The companion is intended to neutrally introduce the readership to the subject of Caucasian Albania from various perspectives.

Palimpsests are manuscripts whose original content has been erased, scraped away, washed off and later overwritten. In their lower layers, they often contain unique versions of texts – including those otherwise lost – from Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume addresses palimpsesting across languages, cultures, and times, as well as up-to-date research and imaging practices applied to them and results achieved in reconstituting removed layers.

Die aufregendsten neuen Stimmen der aktuellen georgischen Literatur: Die aus Georgien stammende und auf Deutsch schreibende Autorin Nino Haratischwili wurde für ihren Roman "Mein sanfter Zwilling" (FVA 2011) als "neue Heldin der deutschsprachigen Literatur" gefeiert und erhielt 2011 den Preis der Hotlist für den besten Roman unabhängiger Verlage. Und Tamta Melaschwili gelang mit "Abzählen" (Unionsverlag 2012) ein außergewöhnliches und vielbeachtetes Debüt. Nicht nur die sprachliche Kraft und der Erfolg der beiden Autorinnen zeigen, dass Georgien ein Land ist, das literarisch im Aufbruch begriffen ist. In den letzten Jahren hat sich dort eine lebendige und vielstimmige Literatur herausgebildet, die vor allem von jungen Autorinnen bestimmt wird. Mit Lakonie, Scharfsinn und ungeheurer Erzählfreude porträtieren sie Leben und gesellschaftliche Umbrüche in ihrem Land.Sechs wunderbare Prosatexte sind zu entdecken und ein Einakter. Sieben georgische Autorinnen, die von den Fallstricken bei der Suche nach modernen weiblichen Lebensentwürfen, von der Selbstbehauptung im Exil und nicht zuletzt von der magischen Kraft des geschriebenen Worts berichten.

The volume contains 23 papers read at the international conference "Historical Corpora 2012", which was hosted by the LOEWE Research Cluster "Digital Humanities" of the State of Hesse at the University of Frankfurt on December 6-8, 2012. The papers, which include three keynote speeches, have been duly updated for the present volume. The contributions take a broad variety of perspectives on "historical corpora", including their structuring, their management, and various other facets. In addition to this, they cover a large amount of different languages, extending from German - in nearly all its historical facettes - across the Romance languages into the Caucasus and from the recent past down into antiquity. Differences also concern the linguistic interests prevailing in the papers, which may focus on syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, lexicological or other phenomena.